{Stus-List} Autopilot

[Colin Beckmann]

I went the under deck pilot route last year.  Raymarine S2G with an 
octopus hydraulic drive.  I would not go with RM's linear 
drives.  When it is not operational, you don't even know the 
hydraulic drive is down below.

   If I had to do it again I would go with a Simrad course 
computer.  The head on the RM ( 6002+) started to 
intermittently  fail after 60 days.  Knowing how intermittent 
failures are addressed I kept it till it was 90 days on the boat and 
completely kaput.   Took CMC, RM's distributor up here in Igloo Land 
over 30 days to fix it and they only got it back together when I said 
I am picking it up Friday, fixed or in pc's.   NO MORE RAYMARINE FOR ME.

Colin.
88 C&C 38-3

At 01:02 PM 30/05/2008, you wrote:
>The S1 with a Type 1 Linear Drive has a belt.
>
>Gary
>S/V Expresso
>
>On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 11:41 AM, 
><<mailto:gpeters at deepsky.com>gpeters at deepsky.com> wrote:
>On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 11:14:46AM -0400, 
><mailto:cenelson at aol.com>cenelson at aol.com wrote:
> >
> > Has anyone on the list had experience with the newer S1 autopilot 
> from Raymarine?which apparently is a direct drive unit--no belt?
> >
>
>I use a Raymarine S1 autopilot on my C&C 30, it works great.  It's
>only my second year with it, so I can't tell you about longevity, but
>no problems yet.  The rudder position sensor was a pain to install,
>and unit itself required some grinding away at the original pedestal
>to get it on, but it works just wonderfully.
>
>- Gavin
>
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