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And what would your comparison be if you bought new today? 
In Response To: WOW ()
() I bought a used Sailomat for $1000. So what. The price of new windvanes is closer to 4500 and in some cases like the swing mounts on some swim steps, the mounts can cost more than the vane. Either way, you need high reliabilty self steering - so you build it or buy it.
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- Auto-pilot or wind vane?
- RIGHT ON!!
- Yep, if you're going to be out there...
- Update: we got the autopilot working.
- Windvane no ka oi
- A windvane wouldn't help the catamaran
- Mark, Sorry, I must say....
- I guess we have different experiences
- It would be fun to....
- You seem to discount the fact that many boats simply cannot use a windvane
- I do not....
- I'm simply not wired for your type of logic
- Not a bad thing...
- Vane mounting issues are only a minor problem
- Changing the subject?
- I don't understand your post
- Simple talk.....
- Ouch...
- I am not sure
- There is one thing you leave out....
- Not really custom. You pick an AP control and a drive unit.
- WOW
- And what would your comparison be if you bought new today?
- And what would your comparison be if you bought new today?
- WOW
- Oh no, that wasn't the case at all
- Not really custom. You pick an AP control and a drive unit.
- I am not sure
- Ouch...
- Simple talk.....
- I don't understand your post
- Changing the subject?
- Vane mounting issues are only a minor problem
- Not a bad thing...
- I'm simply not wired for your type of logic
- Wait, Wait, Wait...
- Our J/120 is another boat for Mark's case
- I do not....
- You seem to discount the fact that many boats simply cannot use a windvane
- It would be fun to....
- I guess we have different experiences
- You know at least two.
- Like anything else a lot depends on the
- Mark, Sorry, I must say....
- WOW - Quite a discussion...
- C'mon, people - check the archives... tillerman settled this debate once and for all years ago.... (grin)
- Jon, what's filling your cockpit foot well in that pic?
- Looks like a reflection on his lens filter?
- Tillerman always did add excitment to a discussion. LOL
- I should probably been clearer in my original post.
- Nice to see you back here, Dan...
- You misread my post
- Please accept my apology.
- p.s. For any still interested in the wind vane discussion.
- One of the more illustrative breakdowns I've ever heard...
- Dan, an interesting observation ....
- Greg, the comments of what they actually see in the anchorage are interesting.
- I appreciate direct talking people
- Mark, you aren't so incompetent to also use roller furling on your cat, are you?
- As I said in....
- I wasn't holding you responsible for his statements Greg
- Alpha Gear
- I think you will agree that....
- Alpha Gear
- I wasn't holding you responsible for his statements Greg
- Mark, you aren't so incompetent to also use roller furling on your cat, are you?
- Greg, the comments of what they actually see in the anchorage are interesting.
- What ever happened to that guy?
- A recent change: autopilots have gotten a LOT better at steering in the last 10 years...
- Jon, what's filling your cockpit foot well in that pic?
- This is better that an anchor thread and a gun thread rolled together...
- RIGHT ON!!
