The Mother of Invention

Ya gotta love the ingenuity of cruisers! Jim Casey tells of an unwelcome visitor aboard his Tahoe and P.V.-based Jeanneau 43DS Tomatillo and how he fixed the resulting damage:

"Sometimes you just have to make do if there’s trouble in paradise. This is the wind instrument on Tomatillo. Apparently, a large bird sat on the masthead unit and  ‘lubricated’ it, then broke the wind vane off completely. A little WD-40 followed by some dry lube freed up the frozen transducer, and a bit of Super Glue on my marina ID got us going in the right direction again."

We’d love to hear about your most ‘creative’ solution to a piece of broken gear (don’t forget photos, if you have them).