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Forum: Product or Service Reviews & Evaluations 19-10-2014, 12:49
Replies: 19
Views: 7,833
Posted By Orchidius
Re: Hasler windvane

Sadly enough, didn't win this one...

Went for 450£

It also did appear to have a "quick disengage" wheel missing, to disengage the windvane from the servo pendulum. The seller never did give me...
Forum: Product or Service Reviews & Evaluations 18-10-2014, 07:23
Replies: 19
Views: 7,833
Posted By Orchidius
Re: Hasler windvane

Here's a few articles I found along the way, just to bundle some of the info out there in this post:

Vane Self Steering Gear | BMSE (https://www.bmse.co.uk/articles/article9/)

Hasler Vane Gears...
Forum: Product or Service Reviews & Evaluations 18-10-2014, 07:16
Replies: 19
Views: 7,833
Posted By Orchidius
Re: Hasler windvane

The boat used to be a classic steel longkeeler. After two years of sea-trails it had its keel chopped though. It's a long story, but here's a picture:

https://i49.tinypic.com/dqqddg.jpg

The...
Forum: Product or Service Reviews & Evaluations 18-10-2014, 05:32
Replies: 19
Views: 7,833
Posted By Orchidius
Re: Hasler windvane

I'm looking to cross the Atlantic yes, and budget is indeed an issue.

If you say that steering gets iffy with boatspeeds below 3knts, is that a comment specifically on the vertical axis vane, or...
Forum: Product or Service Reviews & Evaluations 18-10-2014, 04:32
Replies: 19
Views: 7,833
Posted By Orchidius
Re: Hasler windvane

Would you say the vane can be modified (nylon vane? larger vane?) to be more sensitive? Or is this a balance that shouldn't be messed with?
Forum: Product or Service Reviews & Evaluations 18-10-2014, 04:32
Replies: 19
Views: 7,833
Posted By Orchidius
Re: Hasler windvane

Boat is 29ft, 4.5 metric tonnes (empty weight) steel tank. It's as old as the first commercially produced Hasler vanes, go figure...

Speed is not an issue no, and I read it's fairly doable to...
Forum: Product or Service Reviews & Evaluations 18-10-2014, 04:14
Replies: 19
Views: 7,833
Posted By Orchidius
Re: Hasler windvane

In the following article the one I'm looking at is the regular "SP vane".

Hasler Vane Gears (https://www.kyoa.org.uk/haslervanegears.htm)
Forum: Product or Service Reviews & Evaluations 18-10-2014, 03:49
Replies: 19
Views: 7,833
Posted By Orchidius
Re: Hasler windvane

As I've got no previous experience with windvanes, I'm just wondering if there is any preformance issue with different type/ages of vanes. All servo pendulum vanes obviously use the same principle,...
Forum: Product or Service Reviews & Evaluations 18-10-2014, 03:11
Replies: 19
Views: 7,833
Posted By Orchidius
Hasler windvane

Hi there,

I've been looking at second hand windvanes for a while now, and I've bumped in yet another interesting specimen. This one is a hasler servo-pendulum windvane, supposedly the first one of...
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