In Brian Whatcott writes:
On 23 Jul 2005 06:58:36 GMT, (Lauri Tarkkonen)
wrote:
[Brian]
Wind vanes fail from wearout and from wind gusts.
Wind vanes are prized by blue water cruisers by all accounts
[Brian]
Surely you cannot suppose
that wind vanes DON't wear out, or that they cannot be overwhelmed in
a storm gust?
[Lauri]
Every part in a boat wears off, but a quality windvane is no worse than
other equipment and you can expect a service age of more than 20 years
of a quality windvane if you treat it properly.
A servo pendulum windvane has much more power than the autopilots
usually seen on yachts.
- Lauri Tarkkonen
Lauri,
you seem curiously defensive of windvanes - do you have some monetary
interest in these devices?
Do you feel that an increase in power implies an increase in
reliability?
As to offering opinions - it is indeed a strange thing, but engineers
are often willing to offer engineering opinions on equipment
reliability even on examples of products they have not personally
used.
Does this seem presumptuous to you?
Respectfully
Brian Whatcott Altus, OK
Your suggestion that I have an financial interest in this is insulting.
I just have some real experience about these devices and I have done my
homework before I bought one. I have had some 7 autopilots and one
windvane and I have sailed with few others and istalled one ohter than
mine.
Opinions based on beliefs do not have much practical value, they might
be a nice discussion piece, but looks like you do not want to discuss
your beliefs as nobody is permitted to challenge them, the facts of
course are yuor worst enemy.
There is some variation in the quality of all engineering products, but
I qualified my statement saying that it stands for quality winpilots. Of
course you do not know the difference even is you see one.
- Lauri Tarkkonen