kurz wrote:Hey BOAT, did you realize your gasket so the tille cannot move out of center whyle AP ist not in use?
Have no an customized remote from madman. So I can jug steer with the fob.
I can go down, look to the tiller Arm AP and move it with the remote fob to the right place. So I do not have to squeese under the cockpit. Also can do it with a smartphone.
Looks quite goot so far.
Is to know that this feature has to be ordered separately from madman (he did not charge anythinge for it).
Hey Kurz,
I did not make the brace to stop the piston because I learned how to center the piston from the helm. Here are the instructions:
On the top of the P60 screen is a linear gauge that shows the position of the rudders - it works even when not connected to the rudders of course, but really it's just showing the position of the piston when dis-connected so just press the left or right button until the rudder indicator is full port or full starboard and then press the opposite button until the indicator is at zero and Viola! Your centered! Drop the arm and away you go!
Sorry guys, I have been out in the ocean for the past five days so I did not have any internet. While we were out there we stopped in at Avalon to try out the restaurants and mix with the real yacht club millionaires - we cleaned up as best we could when we went out so those folks in their long gowns and polo shirts would not stick their noses up at us at the Avalon Grill. (We parked right in front of the Yacht Club):
You probably would not spot us because nowadays all boats at Catalina now are 30 feet or more so as the tiniest boat there we are hard to see, (I'm used to that): (EDIT: I PUT A RED CIRCLE AROUND "boat" SO YOU COULD FIND THE TINY BOAT IN THERE
All the other boats on Catalina our size or smaller were little power boats on alphabet row that are tenders for people that live on the island. We were the smallest boat on a real mooring - I have noticed there are less and less small boats out in the open ocean every year, and almost ZERO small sailboats out there - and this trip out we only saw big boats - another sign that the trailer boat market is dying. I think we may be the last of a dying breed. No one seems to want to venture out into the ocean over here anymore unless they are on a big boat.
Oh well,
The auto pilot worked flawlessly - not one issue - we hit 23 knot winds blowing across the boat in huge chop. In both sailing and powering in those conditions the pilot worked perfectly.
In fact, when the Canadian border agent asked me at the crossing, with the boat in tow for the first MMOR I went to, if I had any bar stock in the car or on the boat, I thought he was asking about steel bars like squares and rounds, used for making stuff. Total vapor lock, with slack-jawed expression to go with it. The admiral had to lean over and tell him we had no booze. Doh! 
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