[Public-list] Auto-pilots

[Gordon Laco]

Rats!

I was afraid that some one would come up with a rational explanation.  I was
becoming to cherish the submarine story.  In another few years I would have
been saying that I saw a periscope.

Gord #426







> I understand there is a glitch in the software that periodically appears -
> or so I'm told - the problem you describe happens, I'm told on 4000s, 6000s
> and 7000s too.
> 
> I use a Simrad WP 30 - which is pretty good and usually doesn't fall asleep
> on watch ; )
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> John
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Gordon Laco" <mainstay at csolve.net>
> To: "Alberg 30 Public List -- open to all" <public-list at alberg30.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2005 11:07 AM
> Subject: Re: [Public-list] Auto-pilots
> 
> 
>> I am not sure what they are called now but I lived with an Autohelm 2000 on
>> a voyage from Martinique to Toronto via Bermuda and New York.  It worked
>> flawlessly but for one incident.
>> 
>> When we were about 300 miles south of Bermuda and motoring in a calm, the
>> thing steered the boat in a tight circle for no apparent reason. I was on
>> watch and watched the whole thing happen.  I remember thinking 'this is
>> interesting... I wonder how far we will keep turning". Once completing the
>> loop we continued north again.
>> 
>> Someone told me since that we may have passed over an American submarine
>> on
>> anti drug patrol, the mass of its steel hull deviating the Autohelm's flux
>> gate compass  momentarily.  Either that or the Bermuda Triangle bogeys are
>> real!
>> 
>> Gord #426
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> Alright folks,  what's the best auto pilot (tiller) for an  A30?
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Andy Shaw
>>> Alberg 30  # 477
>>> St. Mary's River, MD
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