Phone call made to George confirmed he has closed down the windvane section of the business so hang onto those modern versions of the Fleming there going to be hard to find .
Mine might become a collectors item. A pity, they are an excellent Australian product.
Select to expand quoteMorningBird said..
Mine might become a collectors item. A pity, they are an excellent Australian product.
Yes I agree John
Someone may yet buy the manufacturing rights and name and keep it all sailing along.
I recently aquired an Aries and I'm busy sorting out the bracket so it will bolt up using the existing gear as my replica SS monitor. Probably 25 years old though it looks months old! This one is the mark 3, made in Denmark and sailed out here from Germany on a steel boat. The Aries, Monitor and the Fleming are immensely strong and this is probably why Fleming have shut up this side of their business. They simply last forever and in a market where the average "sailor" does not want to bother trimming sails but just press buttons this is the death knell for them and others. New autopilots are much more efficient power wise nowadays and if the yachts has a fridge and A/C then that little bit extra for a pilot is nothing. Cruisers with out a fridge are buying all the good old servo windvanes.
The early Flemings are really good buys secondhand. The SS is easy to weld alterations and update so that they look like a modern unit.
