Derek Daniels This is Me

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1. 1. www.hydrovane.com

   www.hydrovane.com/Introduction - [Cached]

   Published on: 8/2/2008   Last Visited: 8/2/2008

   Derek Daniels, an engineer from Nottingham, England was the founder and inventor of the Hydrovane and made it his life's work.Nothing would please him more than to identify a weakness or an inadequacy that he could improve upon on.
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   CORROSION - Over the years Derek has created a windvane unit that is virtually immune to corrosion.
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   HISTORY - In May of 2002 my wife, Karen, and I bought the HYDROVANE business from Derek as he was determined to retire.Derek did not have a website or computer let alone a listed phone number for Hydrovane.
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   Self-Steeri
   ng - By Derek Daniels

2. 2. Servo Pendulum - Hydrovane SelfSteer

   www.hydrovaneselfsteering.com/ - [Cached]

   Published on: 6/1/2006   Last Visited: 9/7/2006

   I used to be on Derek's (previous owner of Hydrovane) publicity as I said Miles had steered me across the Atlantic perfectly 5 times.
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   Rather than embracing Marin-Maries's design, which was loosely based on the same broad concept, British inventor Derek Daniels found a more compact way to engineer a set of linkage that can be adjusted for different rates of mechanical advantage, depending on wind speed.................
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   Derek, the Hydrovane inventor chortles a bit at this and says: "Well, they must be more powerful ...

3. 3. Self Steering - Hydrovane Selfsteer

   www.hydrovane.com/SelfSteering - [Cached]

   Published on: 8/2/2008   Last Visited: 8/2/2008

   Of all these units only the Hydrovane and Aries have their roots in the '60s with Hydrovane's founder, Derek Daniels, being the last of a generation of self steering pioneers when he retired in 2002.
   
   HOW THEY WORK
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   Self-Steering - By Derek Daniels