50$ DIY Self-steering Wind-Vane for my Sailboat
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 ก.พ. 2025
- This is how I built my own wind-vane for my sailboat.
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Genius is not something which one possesses, but something which one is possessed by. I’m pretty sure you’re a genius of sorts Mose. Be safe and happy. I love your videos. They’re a sort of therapy!
Oh thank you so much!! 😍 What a great quote! I will use that! Very wise!
Very impressive Sailor, keep working you have proven your concept no work on SS parts that won’t corrode after one season at sea, good luck from the Left side of Canada 🇨🇦
Thank you so much! Yes I'll try to find better parts when I know it works great. 😊
That was extremely interesting.
I’m still at the ‘10 years thinking about wind vanes’ stage!
Haha soon you will come to the stage of trying to understand how to make them then! ☺️
You'r lucky. I'm in the 20ish
Absolute genius. Common sense is getting harder and harder to find. Love this video. Where have you been, throughout my YT sailing obsession⁉️⁉️⁉️
Haha oh thank you so much!! Just started sailing full time! 😅
Takkkk my friend !
I've been wanting to make one of those for a while, I've been through countless videos over the years but yours is definitely the best one so far !
I have an outer rudder but I think this design would work best anyways.
I've brought my boat in Norway and I loved biltema when I was there hahaha I'm now sailing through Europe, I've fixing been fixing up my boat in Ireland for 2 years and next summer head down south!
Thanks for the motivation and the ideas !
Fair winds to you !
Oh great!! Thank you!! 😀 Yes the trim tab I supposed to be very good but will make it harder to go backwards. So maybe this can be a good idea anyways! I don't know if it will interfere with the streams created by your rudder somehow but it's very cheap to build so no harm in trying! 😊
As a fellow self steering self designer/builder I think your time to build is very accurate.
your lock down mechanism is great! it's actually better than what I see on many commercial models.
Height definitely helps a lot for a horizontal axis wind vane, because you get longer leverage.
What happens when the boat is heeled? will the wind vane cause an adverse effect?
Thanks!! Yes I have to give Bertil credit for the locking mechanism! It's very good.
When heeled I need to adjust the turnbuckle to make the wind paddle stand up. That's the only thing I've needed to adjust, apart from the angle and the sails of course. Maybe the steering ratio could be better too and the paddle higher too as you said. But then I need to raise the solar panels a bit. :)
Besides complimenting the brilliance of your design, the brilliance of your mullet should not go un-noticed. Keep fighting the good fight sir
Haha thank you!! 😀 🐬
Brilliance at its best! Please be safe Mose, I worry about you accidentally tripping on all of those ropes. I don't think Atris would do very well manning the ship alone!😆
Love from Michigan!💞
Haha thank you!! Yes I should be tied in more for sure! 😅 Will do that.
You are pure genius, dude. Very impressed.
Oh thank you!! 😀 it just took me 15 years to think about 😆
Nice! Greetings from my seacats Matroskin and Neko-san to your cool cat!
I'm impressed! 🙂 Blir intressant att följa din utvärdering av diy-rodret.
Yes kul!! Ja det funkar nog som ett sånt ska! Båten måste ha balans men då styr det som det ska! Men är spännande att testa i olika situationer! 😊
Awesome idea and awesome price for a wind vane. I might try this myself for my catamaran
Yes!! No risk in trying. I will make the wind paddle higher to get more leverage, but I have to rethink my solar arch a bit too for that! But it already works in some conditions, but of course I want it working in all conditions a wind vane can work! 😎
Awesome job!
Thanks! 😊
This is definitely the way to go. Years ago I bought a 28ft yacht which had a wind vane attached. I took it off and put it in the garage for 5 yrs. Then couldn't work out how to put it back on, so I sold it for next to nothing. What an idiot.
Later, I discovered the mainsheet to tiller method using medical tubing as the rubber 'return' method. Its good because you can add as many bits of tube as you need to counteract the windstrength. And its cheap.
Yes it's great for a cheap way to steer! I have used it a lot!! 😊
I like your style. Both the how and the why.
Thanks!! 😀
Nice boat by the way. Im thinking about windvanes myself (only 2 years now). I like your mechanisms and now I saw your Ideas I want/will push it more to a pendular version (if possible). Cheers from Belgium. ps : my goal is to place it on a small trimaran (F22)
Great idea!! It's a bit more maybe but let me know if it works! It could probably be able to just tilt the bottom part back and forth! That would work! It's probably more reliable like that. I need to raise the wind paddle for more leverage on mine. But it works in certain conditions. I don't know all the conditions it should work. 😅
@@happygoluckyland , im looking at many videos now and i found this video wich is quite interesting. The guy is using a morse cable or bowden cable to transfer the linear movement of the vane to rudder tab. they use this kind of cable to controle outboard engines. This avoids all the complicated linkages. Cheers th-cam.com/video/fsq5WJ4ySdQ/w-d-xo.html
Thanks Mose! How do you do the anchor maneuver with the stern anchor and the lines on the island? Can you do a tutorial on how to do it single-handed? Or does Atris help you? 😊
Haha yes I have been thinking about it. But I haven't yet really nailed a procedure. It requires a very calm place, slow speed and me running back and forth with the anchor rope. I go back tie it and hope I can reach land. Sometimes it's not enough and I bounce back 😅 but I have one trick up my sleeve on my boat. It's that I can remote control my electric motor. So I can adjust the speed from the bow as well. That comes in very handy when doing it singlehandedly!
Very nice. Very clever
Thank you!! 😀
Impressive construction! Curious to see how it works with stronger winds
Yes!! I will show in upcoming videos!
Genio!! Gracias por ordenar y compartir tanta información
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Keep us up to date.
Thank you
Yes!! 😊
excelent!!!!! thanks for sharing and great work
Haha thank you!! 😀
Brilliant thank you.
Thank you!! 😀
How to sail oceans put out a good tutorial on how to DIY one a few years ago.
Okey great! I will check it out! Is it also Auxiliary rudder? :)
@@happygoluckyland Trim Tab ---> "Biscayne bound; the DIY self-steering windvane"
Yes it's another kind :)
Great work!
Thank you!!
I absolutely love it and would like to build one as well. Would drawings be available at some stage? I am willing to purchase them.
Oh yes thank you!! I have considered making drawings but I want to test it out so the ratios are as good as possible and I don't sell snake oil. But everything to know is in this video I think. I think it takes a while to wrap ones head around how it works but then it's really not that complicated! 😊
🔥🔥 great video
Thanks! 😎
❤ love it
Thanks!! 😊
Good project and yet people doesn't seem to ask you some diagram to build one, rather than feedback there's only adulation when you have brought this simple setup and every commenter here should have built one and sharing the design .. I have downloaded plenty of wind vane designs that later they tried to monetise and don't remember much but this looks ok and you can publish it in THINGIVERSE or hackaday, etc and receive useful feedback from people that builds them.
Be safe and sail with people and harness and you could try purposed sailing bringing cargo or removing ghost nets,etc
Amazing!!
Thanks!! 😊
Whee, what a great idea! And it looked as if you had real fun doing it. How do you know?
Yea thank you!! How do I know what? 😊
@@happygoluckyland I mean your knowledge about the physics and engineering of such a device. You talked like you know what you are doing (and you did :)
I haven't seen such a simple windvane system yet.
Haha yes someone is going to be first! 😅
very good!
Thanks! 😎
Fantastic!
Thanks!! 😀
amazing
Thanks!! 😀
I follow the Kat!!
Could you share all the process to build one and then pay you for it? Want to have one
Yes that would be interesting. I want to fine tune it more before but I have considered making plans available for a reasonable price maybe. But all the info you need is in this video really. If you copy the design you can adjust it at the points I described. 😊
How do you record your audio when sailing on the boat. It sounds so crisp and clear!
I have a mic on my camera rode ntg. But I record voice overs inside with it. When filming with the phone I need noise reduction sometimes!
Great video.
What model boat is that ? Alberg ?
Thank you! It's a Bacchant IV. They are a bit similar!!
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This is even better then Elon musks FSD on Teslas :D it is FSD for Sailingboats :)
Haha yesss!! 😎 Verkligen! Drar ingen el heller!