I have had problems with my Raymarine ST4000 Autopilot for some time. I have an opportunity to get a Raymarine S1 at a good price and I am wondering what the experience is of others with this Autopilot.
I also understand from Raymarine that the installation should not be difficult since the fluxgate compass the wheel drive and the rudder position device are the same. Let me know if anyone has installed it and had good or bad experience with the installation.
Enrique
Talisman, '98 MK2 Hull #1673
Sailing out of Essex, CT
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Enrique
Talisman
1998 36 MK2 Hull #1673
Tall Rig Wing Keel
M35BC engine
Old Saybrook, CT Summer
South Glastonbury, CT Winter
Talisman,
I installed my S1 last year. I reported on it in the old forum. Open the old forum, go to the "sharing advice on maintainence" thread, scroll down and you will see my entries. The hardest part was installing the rudder sensor. Otherwise it was a fairly normal installation. If you already have the equipment indicated it should be fairly simple for you. Also, there are many entries in the old forum about the S-1's. Just search for them. There are pictures that I took too. You may have to install Adobe Flash Player if you don't have already so you will be able to view them.
My old Autohelm 4000 was the pits. You will enjoy the S-1.
Bill
Bill Taylor
Heel'n Good #1612
Washington, NC
Much of what I wrote in my Installing a Below Deck Autopilot article now published at [url]http://www.c36ia.com/node/1335[/url] is applicable to a wheel-mounted autopilot. Of special interest may be the method I used of mounting the rudder position sensor, which is well documented in the article.
Larry Brandt
S/V High Flight #2109
Pacific Northwest, PDX-based
2002 C-36 mkII SR/FK M35B
Hi. We had no room in our lazarette, so we did a bit of cutting and installed thus:
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You won't regret doing this install, the autopilot is great!
S.V. Wind Star
Rob & Margie Kyles: Auckland ,New Zealand
Mk I Hull #105 1983 Std Rig, Std Keel
You may be interested in this: [url]http://forums.catalina.sailboatowners.com/showthread.php?t=105830[/url]
Scroll up to the start from page one, read both pages.
Stu Jackson, C34IA Secretary, C34 #224, 1986, SR/FK, M25 engine, Rocna 10 (22#)
I just started calibrating my newly installed S-1 autopilot. Does anyone have advice on settings for Gain and any other settings for it? The calibration of the unit has been straightforward so far but I am interested in the experiences of others in the boat-specific settings.
Thank you,
Elliott
Collaboration #1469
MkII 1995
Port Annapolis Marina
Elliott Milstein
Collaboration #1469
1995 C-36MkII
Port Annapolis Marina