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Modern autopilots. 
In Response To: I almost hit a sea buoy this weekend ()
Old autopilots (like mine) will only steer a compass course. Modern ones will interface with the chart plotter and steer to minimize cross track error, which removes the issue of cross currents.
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- Hylas 70 on the Rocks (near Camden)
- Blow-up
- Route to Pulpit
- Autoguidance is another one.....
- Really no good excuses
- "Low" not 'load" tide (another dumb typing mistake) :^))
- That pic also show why the mast broke just above the boom
- Perhaps that boat needed a 3rd plotter, to break any potential "tie"...
- "owners FIRST boat was a Hylas 54..." Bingo Jon!
- LOL! Uhhh, re-read the second sentence of my post, please... (grin)
- "Not that it's particularly relevant", good point(any relevance, at all...?). You're like a lazy prosecutor, Jon,
- OK, so it has no relevance whatsoever...
- I almost hit a sea buoy this weekend
- If you hit one between the hulls, it is oh shit!
- Modern autopilots.
- Only if...
- Our B&G and the Simrad (a/k/a Robertson) go to the route line unless you hit reset.
- But what if you don't set a waypoint or course?
- It creates a two point line -- like a leg of a route
- No I don't think we're talking about the same thing
- Incidents and resulting discussions like this one are precisely why...
- It creates a two point line -- like a leg of a route
- But what if you don't set a waypoint or course?
- Our B&G and the Simrad (a/k/a Robertson) go to the route line unless you hit reset.
- Only if...
- I almost hit a sea buoy this weekend
- OK, so it has no relevance whatsoever...
- "Not that it's particularly relevant", good point(any relevance, at all...?). You're like a lazy prosecutor, Jon,
- LOL! Uhhh, re-read the second sentence of my post, please... (grin)
- the Hylas 54 is really a wonderful, large, well designed, cruising boat.
- "owners FIRST boat was a Hylas 54..." Bingo Jon!
- Not to quible - but they had one under the dodger too.
- "Low" not 'load" tide (another dumb typing mistake) :^))
- Whoa Al! Do you really speculate the captain plugged a waypoint through islands and reefs, and set sail?
- I was talking to a friend last night, that also hit that rock.
