[Rhodes22-list] Raymarine tiller pilot installation help

[Christopher Cowie]

I used my tiller pilot a fair amount when sailing out of Herrington Harbor on the Chesapeake Bay for day long trips across the bay for an overnight trip up the Wye River on the Eastern Shore of Maryland.  While I had the pilot connected to my Garmin fish finder I found it simpler to point the boat in the direction I want to travel and hit the autopilot button, use the +and - keys for minor adjustments and the manual button to cancel guidance.  The pilot also has an option for a remote control but that seems unnecessary given I am always just a few feet away from the pilot buttons.  

I now sail on the Potomac river with lots of in town commercial and pleasure traffic and narrow deep water channels and only rely on the pilot for short legs and breaks.

Christopher P. Cowie    


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-----Original Message-----
From: Rhodes22-list [mailto:rhodes22-list-bounces at rhodes22.org] On Behalf Of Hank
Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2016 9:55 AM
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Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Raymarine tiller pilot installation help

Just don't sleep (or watch DVDs) like the Tesla driver!

Hank

On Tue, Jul 5, 2016 at 9:14 AM, Michael Weisner <mweisner at ebsmed.com> wrote:

> Olivier,
>
> There must be a way to couple the Phantom 4 with the tiller control to 
> provide wind info, collision avoidance, weather and other course data.  
> If only it could stay aloft for more than a half hour, you could get a 
> good sleep while underway.  DJI publishes a fairly complete API SDK 
> for accessing the drone info ;-)
>
> Mike
> s/v Wind Lass ('91)
> Nissequogue River, NY
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rhodes22-list [mailto:rhodes22-list-bounces at rhodes22.org] On 
> Behalf Of Hank
> Sent: Tuesday, July 5, 2016 8:45 AM
> To: The Rhodes 22 Email List <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
> Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Raymarine tiller pilot installation help
>
> The issue with using a chartplotter when under sail is that the wind 
> is not generally coming from a constant heading so your sail trim will 
> not always been very good.  I used to own an Islander 36 with a 
> chartplotter, wheel pilot and a NMEA compliant wind guage and my auto 
> pilot could then keep a constant point of wind based upon the wind 
> direction detected by the wind gauge.
>
> Hank
>
>
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