Gone ashore raping & pillagingYep. Saw that this morning. Rather embarrassing for them.
The island might have moved.Steering failure or failing to steer, it has to be one of the two...
So why will my autopilot not let me do just that? It always whinges about 'accept turn to next waypoint' guff. I'd much rather a random gybe and dismasting than simply running into the rock that I had planned the route to avoid...
[not actually trolling, but...]
It’s a very different autopilot. Yours, and mine, and all yacht autopilots, are “dumb” systems like those fitted to a WW2 bomber. Finnish and Swedish ferries threading their way through narrow channels at speed have systems more like a civil airliner’s automatic landing system.
Not everyone knows that these ships actually run on autopilot, using an automated navigation system, rather like an aircraft’s instrument landing system, for the whole voyage. It was found years ago that the large number of precise course alterations, all made at speed, was too much for a human to cope with.
It follows I think that a sensor must have been defective and that it’s back up was also defective.
It sounds like a good story for the news.I think the OOW did rather well to stick her safely ashore promptly after the automatic system failed. A crash landing, but everybody could walk away from it.
It’s a very different autopilot. Yours, and mine, and all yacht autopilots, are “dumb” systems like those fitted to a WW2 bomber. Finnish and Swedish ferries threading their way through narrow channels at speed have systems more like a civil airliner’s automatic landing system.