[Public-list] Auto-pilots

[John Birch]

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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