Hi Bernhard, I wanted to let you know I have just finished installing the Provane on my Aloha 34 and this video was VERY helpful in getting it properly set up and I was able to have my first successful experience using it this afternoon for a couple of hours, thanks to your video. The manual from Imre is helpful, but seeing your video and the actual functioning of the windvane through the different stages of setting it up make it much easier to understand. Thanks!

Hello Bernhardt good to se your videos! We met in Barbate and left the day after you left... Our trip to Gibraltar was indeed a little easier than yours...We will stay there for the winter and return to the boat in April! Hope to se in the next couple seasons!

Really cool. This looks all very logic, but i think i must try and feel it by myself to really understand it. like always 😊

Very educative explanation and demonstration of the vind vane. Thanks! IMHO: What causes the boat to head up by itself, especially in gusts, is the heel. The heel causes the forces acting on the sails and those acting on the hull/keel to be moved apart from each other in the horizontal plane. This causes a moment turning the boat towards the wind. An imbalanced sail plan also may lead to weather helm, but the strong tendency to head up comes from the heel. This is why you want to keep a boat as upright as possible. @5:05 you say that the vind vane should not try to permanently counter balance... Well, of course the boat should be balanced, the sails be well trimmed, no heavy bias on the main rudder, but then the job of the vind vane is exactly this: Counterbalancing any forces which take the boat off course, it has to counterbalance its tendency constantly wanting to head up. A note on stalling sails: When pointing too high, the sails get depowered, but they do not stall. The wind just rushes along the canvas without generating lift. The sails are stalled when pointing too low or when oversheeted. Then the laminar flow breaks down, becomes turbulent, you get very little lift and excessive stress on the rigg and a lot of heel.

good video

Thanks Bernhard for the nice clear demonstration. Everything you covered I have experienced in my use of this PV. I have the add on device to the shaft which allows me to make directional adjusts using a cord. As my yacht is a centre cockpit, and I also am predominantly a solo sailor, this item is very useful. I hard anti-foul the rudder each season and remove during winter months when not doing passages. Only issue I have is the drag on manoeuvring in tight spaces such as marinas. So as I do a-lot of day sails I remove the rudder until a passage is planned. How do you find it with close quarters manoeuvres? Mine is off centred like yours.

Hi Bernhard! Vielleicht geht es sich aus das du am Samstag Abend im Tic Tac bist, gerne laden wir dich auf ein Steak ein! „Hebel on the tabel“ Lg Markus & Conny

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