dansaskip
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Let's remember the thread is about doing it on a budget.And the price of modern below decks autohelms for 40-50 ft boats, with all the gubbins to make them so amazing can surely can’t be much cheaper, if not even a bit dearer, than a wind vane?
There has been comment on autopilots versus windvane and peps have said wind vanes are expensive. Well just out of interest I have looked at the price of autoplilots. It seems that they start at around £2,000 and go up to perhaps £3,295 and I don't know if you would need to buy extras so on a par with or more expensive than a windvane system.
I'll stick with my Monitor thank you after all its only done 23,270 nautical miles without breaking down or running out of electricity