Motor Boat & Yachting

SEASICKNESS SOLUTION

easickness has tainted my wife’s enjoyment of boating. We addressed this on our previous boat by fitting Humphree Interceptors. These replace trim tabs and work like a guillotine, coming down parallel to the transom. The blades are short and wide so they don’t need to travel more than a few cms, meaning they are able to adjust quickly, on a wave-to-wave basis. On my current boat (a Mitchell 28 with a semi-displacement hull), I was getting quite a bit of roll in a beam sea, so I needed to help mitigate that. But Interceptors were expensive to buy and I couldn’t fit them myself. And then the new Humphree Lightning system arrived. The motor

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