The Windvane Self-Steering Handbook by Morris Bill

The Windvane Self-Steering Handbook by Morris Bill

This book shows how to choose, buy, build, install, maintain, repair, and use a windvane self-steerer. When you're cruising shorthanded, you can't always be at the helm. A windvane self-steering system is the most reliable means of steering your small vessel on long ocean passages--and it doesn't use one amp of your precious electrical power."The Windvane Self-Steering Handbook" is the definitive guide to every aspect of sailing and working with the long-distance sailor's best friend. Veteran sailor Bill Morris points out the mechanical and navigational advantages of vane steering systems; provides an overview of available products, complete with sizes, prices, and contact information; and shows you how to install, maintain, repair, and modify vane gears for best performance. In this practical guide you'll find: lucid explanations of how vane gears work; an easy-to-implement discussion of how to match a vane design with your boat; invaluable instructions for how to sail with a windvane - settings, sail trim, etc.; a look at ten commercially available vane gear systems; diagrams and instructions for a home-built unit; and, instructions for customizing vane gears for optimum performance.

Bill Morris has taught English at the high school and university levels and was a magazine editor in Florida before taking to the sea in a Cal 30. A self-described tech head, he has studied self-steering mechanisms extensively in his years of roaming the oceanshe is now in Australiaand has written about windvane gears for magazines in Australia and the U.S., the latter including Ocean Navigator. This is his first book.HOMETOWN: Centennial, Colorado

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ISBN 13	9780071434690
ISBN 10	0071434690
Titel	The Windvane Self-Steering Handbook
Autor	Morris Bill
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Bindungsart	Hardback
Verlag	McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
Erscheinungsjahr	2004-03-16
Seitenanzahl	224
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