[Rhodes22-list] wind indicator

[Mary Lou Troy]

Hi Rummy,
I suspect Windex is not as tempting a target when mounted on the 
antenna whip. It had to be a pretty large bird to break the Windex. 
We were on the boat when one of them broke and from the "scrawnk" we 
heard, I suspect it was a heron. I think we went to the Sparfly 
before we had a masthead antenna.

Mary Lou
1991 R22 Fretless
Rock Hall, MD



At 07:09 AM 2/27/2011, you wrote:
>A wind indicator at the top of the mast is in clean air, which makes it the
>  most accurate. I have a VHF antenna which I have a windex mounted on the
>whip.  There are other ways to mount the windex, this one was the most
>convenient for  me. I haven't had the bird problems that Mary Lou 
>has experienced,
>but I do  spray a healthy dose of WD-40 on it to repel the spiders.
>
>Rummy
>
>
>In a message dated 2/26/2011 8:29:02 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
>ccowie at cowieassociates.com writes:
>
>
>I  have simple fabric wind indicators, telltales, on my port and  starboard
>shrouds that help give a sense of the wind direction and I am  wondering
>what
>others like to use.  Does the  davis instruments  windex wind indicator
>mounted on top of the mast work well and is this easy  to install?  I also
>see that davis has "wind tell telltales" that are  rigid plastic flags that
>mount on the shrouds.  Both of these would be  a step up form the fabric or
>yarn I hang on the shrouds and I am wondering  what others find useful.
>
>
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