[Public-list] Auto-pilots

[John Birch]

It was a white whale ...


----- 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 12:16 PM
Subject: Re: [Public-list] Auto-pilots


> 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
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>>> 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
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>>>
>>>> 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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