There are a few reasons for selling windvane self steering systems as parts for self assembly:

Price, Price and knowing your system.

- The work that you can do yourself does not have to be payed for.
- High sensitivity is now affordable, otherwise tweaking would have to be done in the factory which requires more time or parts with tighter tolerances, both of which would result in a higher purchase price.
- After assembly you know your system intimately, allowing for easier and better maintenance.

The actual amount of time spent on preparing the system for mounting is about 2-3 hours including waterproofing the pendulum rudder. But when you include reading the manuals, drinking coffee, having lunch and bragging about your plans it will probably be about 1 day.

All plastics suffer from degradation due to the influence of ultra violet rays. But the plastics used by Mister Vee are either in a position where actual strength is not much of an issue or a fibre reinforced version is used, primarily in the tubes. The fibres do not get damaged by UV so the only problem that may occur (after several years of use) is that the fibres become exposed at the surface of the tubes. This is why you should NEVER clean the tubes with any kind of abbrasive. The tubes are standard parts and can either be replaced cheaply or can even be painted to re-coat the fibres.

The answer is in the windvane self steering handbook that appears when you log in. You can also look at the page directly, click here.

On many boats there is equipment mounted on the transom that makes it difficult to mount a self steering system on the boats centre line.
It may be tempting to take the easy route and mount the system off centre so it clears the other equipment.

However, mounting the system off centre may result in the pendulum rudder surfacing on some courses resulting in sudden loss of power and poor steering. For the best results on all courses, always mount the system on the boats centre line.

For some situations using Mr. Vane with the optional off centre kit may offer a solution. This way the vane mast can be mounted off centre while keeping the pendulum rudder on the centre line.

Mister Vee offer a very simple two part guarantee:

- Your system will steer your boat or you can return your system for a refund.
- If anything breaks within the first 3 years of purchase it will be replaced for free.

More about this guarantee in the terms of sale.

All prices are listed in the webshop

The Mister Vee website can be reached trough several URL's such as www.mistervee.com and www.windvaneselfsteering.com and all of these URL's can be used both with and without the leading www.

If you have logged in using www.mistervee.com but use another URL the next time, fi. by following a link, you will not be logged in and may not reach the page you want.

The easiest way to avoid this is logging in to the website and then make a bookmark to be used the next time.

If you want to visit a link that has (for instance) windvaneselfsteering.com in it but you are logged in at www.mistervee.com, copy whatever is behind windvaneselfsteering.com (/?q=etcetera) and paste that behind www.mistervee.com

You should then reach the page you want.

NOTE:
It is not necessary to log out after each visit.