[Public-list] Auto-pilots

[Andrew M Shaw]

I'd stick with  your story Gordon. I's a much better yarn!

Andy

On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 12:16:44 -0500 Gordon Laco <mainstay at csolve.net>
writes:
> 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
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> > 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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