The new Hydrovane! Self Steering BIG players raise the bar!

Yacht self steering legends Hydrovane, just updated the most popular wind vane on the market! Find out about the New Rudder, New Colours as as well as all of their updates and upgrades that make this the best Hydrovane yet!

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[bigskybluewaters]

The Hydrovane is an awesome crew mate. Will and Richard at hydrovane are so helpful. We initially bought the Hydrovane for a Catalina 320 and placed it off center. 2 years later we moved the vane to a blue water 40 ft boat. They were able to help us make it work on the new boat. We ordered a different shaft and the stubby vane and we were in business. This saved us a few thousand dollars from having to buy a whole new hydro vane. Anything you need help with these guys are there answering questions. They want to help make it work for you and your boat. I cannot recommend their product or them enough!

[PetegNZ]

Super nice having a windvane for the fact that they're silent too, much better for the crew off watch than hearing a hydraulic ram going all the time.

[WilliamBell-tk]

The Hydrovane is a testament to the skill, knowledge and engineering innovation of Derek Daniels in Nottinghamshire. An example of high class British

[DirkJacobsz]

Loved my Hydrovane - took us across Oceans - Raymarine died going across the Mozambique channel - Hydrovane worked..we have a new boat need to get another Hydrovane.

[javacup]

Always loved to have a Hydrovane on my boat (plumb transom, on 33' boat) but the price is holding me back. If I could find a used one and piece meal the installation, maybe I'd buy it. Though not plan for long ocean crossing, rudder faillures can happen any time, and it's nice to have a way to get to shore.

[goodq]

Amazing. As always. Icing on the video is seeing a sister ship to my boat 😎 4:00

[SailingAquamarine]

Having sailed with a few of these, I know they are the ultimate autopilot. Years and years of real world experience has evolved it to be ultra capable and reliable (for instance the slop in the system tuned in to give hysteresis and a smoother course) I just wish I could afford one!

[grahamselby]

Hard to imagine the Hydrovane needing to be improved. We sailed across the Atlantic in 1978 using one and it worked to perfection. I'm possibly planning another trans Atlantic at the ripe old age of 72 and will definitely be looking to purchasing a Hydrovane if the boat doesn't come with one. Very interesting about using a tiller pilot. I'll be looking into that as well.

[SVImpavidus]

No doubt, they are the best and can be fitted off centre, which is a great advantage on a modern boat. Sail Safe Guys, Ant & Cid.

[WillNGo]

Keep in mind James Frederick, (who's seen at the beginning of this video) Sailing Triteia has a full keel to the rudder on his Alberg 30, yet his rudder was damaged mid ocean. Later Hydrovane did him a solid. He had a cheap vane that broke two days out of California.
I've got a Hydrovane on my Hunter 456. Consider it essential gear for ocean crossing. (My redundancy is a solid Whitlock steering system, a RayMarine autopilot that has never had a problem. the Hydrovane and a stick autopilot to use on it. Blade rudder, so I don't consider any of this gear to be overkill.)

[jo]

Simple durable design is very appealing but as the boat falls sideways off a wave in big seas ( as happened to us twice during our Pacific crossing with bare poles doing hull speed ) there is no servo rudder to correct the yaw of the vessel and keep it on track and reduce broaching risks.

[ianfirth-clark]

It would be interesting to know what size boats they can go up to as I believe generally before they were limited.

[SOLDOZER]

If you mount it off center, wont it be mostly out of the water on certain tacks making it mostly not effective?

[reversingentropy]

No way mate. We are removing ours and keeping a full spare autopilot in case anything goes wrong with the main one. People don't realize how heavy these things are hanging at the back of the boat, they interfere with the dinghy davits and solar arches, and worst of all they only work in very narrow wind conditions and sea state, and forget about trying to use a Spinnaker or code zero. We live in Portugal right in the middle of orca territory. Rather have a transom mount for an emergency rudder. Stay safe out there. Cheers

[McGyverPilot]

Theres been an influx of sales on these ever since the spike in hungry rudder-chewing Orcas. What a coincidence! 😅

[NigelLoller]

Still only has the fraction of the power of a decent servo system