Stowe log impeller break-down

[gianenrico]

Hello to everybody,
my old (1984) Stowe instrumentation is giving me some problems: the speed instrument impeller has broken and needs replacing: any idea, as Stowe company does not exists anymore (even if I was told that Mr Stowe operates some marine intrumentatio operation in southern England) where I could get a spare impeller or wether there are alternatives (are all impellers equivalent? That could be as all have 4 paddles, but the small magneto specs could be different)? Of course I can get the information on speed and log by the GPS, but as the Stowe includes the Navigator 2, I apreciated having the VMG clearly reported (by the way, seems nowadays that nobody cares about VMG anymore; do You agree? and why is that?
Cheers from Italy

 

[mainmarine]

check out www.airmar.com they list transducers for lots of logs and sounders they may have a cross reference number

 

[gianenrico]

Sorry, but Stowe is not in the list of producers.

 

[pvb]

You need to contact AW Marine....

AW Marine bought the entire stock of Stowe spare parts when Simrad bought Stowe some years ago. If anyone has a spare impeller, it'll be them. Unfortunately, having the monopoly results in monopoly pricing!

 

[VicMallows]

Re: You need to contact AW Marine....

It was nice when you could pop into Stowe just a few hundred yards down the road....or pop up the road and talk to the owner.....happy days!... still, certainly don't degrudge him!

Vic