anyone know of a self steering rig for the Typhoon?

[Lotis]

Is there a windvane small enough for the Ty or am i going to have to make one? Most i've seen seem to big and heavy for the stern.

[Dick Barthel]

I suggest you send a private email to Tod Mills. He knows a lot about wind vanes and small sailing craft. I don't recall seeing him posting on the board lately so an email might help.

Dick

[Tynaje]

http://www.mindspring.com/~waltmur/Self ... entary.htm http://www.onpassage.com/Steering_Syste ... eering.htm

[Lotis]

do you have tod mills email address? i'd love to send him a message!

[Oswego John]

Also check into Didereaux's name on Search. He did extensive research on self steering.

O J

[Dick Barthel]

do you have tod mills email address? i'd love to send him a message!

Lotis - just find his name in any post (use search feature - "Tod Mills") and once at a post just click on his Profile. There is a button for a Private Message.

Dick

[Didereaux]

Lotis,
The Navik is to my knowledge the smallest windvane commercially available. I used one on a CD-25, but at around 30 lbs and small footprint it would work as well on a Typhoon. It is, however pricey, unless you find a used one. There is quite a support group around Walt Murrays' build your own and a quick search on the net will yield lots of info. But caution, it takes a lot of work, and a lot of fiddling to build one that finally suits your needs. If you do not have a shop and tools and have to hire the parts to be made it can become very costly.

As windvanes go, one thing to keep squarely in mind is they are NOT convenient for daysailng, or gunkholing where you do a lot of manuevering.

My suggestion for those activities is look into sheet to tiller self steering, and as OJ mentioned earlier contact Tod Mills on that one.

g'Luk