onesea
Well-known member
Question for you all...
Having had minimal experience with tiller pilots...
I am considering one for a 35 foot 3/4 tonner about 4.5 Disp all up. Usage Coastal cruising very amateur ish racing...
She is a handful for one without pilot and with 2 it could make life easier.
She has Raymarine wind gear so I have been thinking Raymarine.
Off the shelf I guess it is the choice between:
Raymarine ST2000 at around £420
And the:
SPX5 at about £1000
How much of a pain are they to rig and unrig when not in use?
With tiller pilots do you have to take them off the tiller if you want to steer manually for any reason. What do you do with them??
The rudder is semi balanced with S/S stick inside S/S tube going through counter..
There is plenty of space down there, is there an option I could put a quadrant down there so I can just push button and Pilot is On/ Off?
Advice thoughts ideas appreciated...
Having had minimal experience with tiller pilots...
I am considering one for a 35 foot 3/4 tonner about 4.5 Disp all up. Usage Coastal cruising very amateur ish racing...
She is a handful for one without pilot and with 2 it could make life easier.
She has Raymarine wind gear so I have been thinking Raymarine.
Off the shelf I guess it is the choice between:
Raymarine ST2000 at around £420
And the:
SPX5 at about £1000
How much of a pain are they to rig and unrig when not in use?
With tiller pilots do you have to take them off the tiller if you want to steer manually for any reason. What do you do with them??
The rudder is semi balanced with S/S stick inside S/S tube going through counter..
There is plenty of space down there, is there an option I could put a quadrant down there so I can just push button and Pilot is On/ Off?
Advice thoughts ideas appreciated...