On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 10:09:47AM -0400, ken wrote: > I know you most likely have already considered this, so my real question > here is why not?, use a wind vane? I have for decades and found it the > ideal solution except for two circumstances, shifting winds very close > to hazards, IE ICW et all, and no wind. > > But my vane steers much better than me and has never failed.-Ken
Two reasons, primarily: 1. Inboard rudder. 2. Cost. #2 is not the killer factor here, though: a boat designer on another list, Brent Swain, has come up with an excellent, sturdy, cheap design for a windvane that's in service on a number of his boats. However, it requires an transom-hung rudder - which takes us back to #1. It's possible to work around this... but not in the middle of a cruise. -- * Ben Okopnik * Editor-in-Chief, Linux Gazette * http://LinuxGazette.NET * _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list [email protected] To adjust your membership settings over the web http://www.liveaboardnow.org/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard To subscribe send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] The archives are at http://www.liveaboardnow.org/pipermail/liveaboard/ To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html
