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delliottg
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Initially Posted - 11/23/2008 :  08:22:32  Show Profile  Visit delliottg's Homepage
When we put SL in the water a few months back, I remember putting the windbird on the top of the mast, and I distinctly remember tightening down the screw to hold the tabs & the indicator in place. I'd forgotten to put the bird on several times, so it's now in our launch checklist to make sure. However, after we got to the marina, I noticed that the tabs were askew, I figured a gust must have spun it a bit, but didn't have any easy way to fix it. Rita is not going up the mast, and I don't think I want my weight up there, so I figured I'd fix it when we take out for the winter. Well, our last windstorm fixed that for me, now I have to replace the whole thing. This last time we were down there, I noticed that the entire thing is missing, probably consorting with the pieces from my pelican hook in the muck beneath my slip. Obviously I didn't do such a good job tightening down that screw.
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Tom Potter
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Response Posted - 11/23/2008 :  08:59:26  Show Profile
I never remove mine, when I lower the mast I zip tie the arrow to one of the tabs to prevent it from spinning. I've trailered hundreds and hundreds of miles and its never came off. Just one extra thing not to have to deal with. I use zip ties to secure the shrouds so when preparing to raise the mast as I walk around snipping the zip ties off the shrouds I just lean back and snip the one off the wind vane as well.
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Nautiduck
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Response Posted - 11/23/2008 :  11:04:31  Show Profile
Tom, thanks for that tip. Not that I have ever forgotten to mount the Windex.....
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OLarryR
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Response Posted - 11/23/2008 :  16:56:47  Show Profile  Visit OLarryR's Homepage
My mast stays up year-round....well except for when the mast was rewired. I recall a couple of years ago, that the Windex was deteriorating. Part of it fell off. So, when rewiring the mast, installed a new Windex with spike (bird preventer). The first day the mast was back up and I was sitting in the cockpit area, a small bird landed on the Windex - THe spike, I guess, works only to prevent large birds from roosting. Then I had the boat out of the water for a week to repaint the bottom. As the guys used the travel lift to put my boat in the mtn yard, the bird preventer got clipped by an overhanging branch. The spike wound up laying in my cockpit (it snapped off at the base). But the Windex seems to be okay minus the bird preventer.

Such problems seem to always involve those things hardest to access.
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welshoff
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Response Posted - 11/24/2008 :  11:35:52  Show Profile
When I first put my boat in her slip, I went down to the boat and the Windex was laying on top of the cabin. The birds did a number on it. I replaced with a Windex with the bird spike on top. No more problems to date.

The last couple time I trailered the boat I just left the Windex mounted (I actually forgot to remove it once). It just rides along and I have not damaged it yet. I don't tie it down or mess with it an any way. I have gone several hundred miles at 60 mph and have not damaged it yet. Like others say, one less thing to remember to install when setting up the boat.
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