HYDROVANE Installation on our BENETEAU - Testing & Review - EP 09 - Sailing Beaver

#hydrovane #beneteau #sailing JOIN OUR PATREON TEAM - For extra content, our eBooks, real-time updates, sea stories & more. https://www.patreon.com/sailingbeaver Installation, testing and review of a @Hydrovane Self-Steering System on our Beneteau Oceanis 40. This is one of the biggest projects we have completed while upgrading our Beneteau for longer offshore passages. We have included some footage captured offshore testing the Hydrovane and learning how to operate it. Altogether the Hydrovane is the perfect piece of equipment for our boat and we are very pleased with it's performance. Apologies in advance for some microphone interference, we have tried our best to fix it but if anyone has any ideas how to remove it please let us know. A couple from Australia and Norway who set sails from Norway on a Beneteau Oceanis 40 in late 2018 to explore the world by sailboat. (Yup, another sailing couple doing the standard route and documenting it on film.) Please Subscribe to help support the channel. Sam & Nicole X JOIN OUR SUPPORT TEAM If you would like to help crowdfund our small production, head over to our Patreon page where you can contribute a few dollars each month to keep the videos coming and gain access to all our additional content. https://www.patreon.com/sailingbeaver Or https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=LPXRTXCDDTTUU GET OUR BLUEWATER CRUISER EBOOK HERE! https://www.sailingbeaver.com/product... E-book also available for FREE download to all our supporting Patreons VISIT OUR WEBSITE: https://sailingbeaver.com FOLLOW US ON FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/sailingbeaver CONNECT WITH US ON INSTAGRAM: @sam_hawk @nicolecarlsen https://instagram.com/sam_hawk https://instagram.com/nicolecarlsen 00:00 - Intro 04:00 - Positioning of the unit 06:50 - Backing plates 08:00 - Mounting brackets & shaft 09:38 - Attaching rudder 10:16 - Connecting drive unit 10:30 - Fitting the vane 11:07 - Review