Upgrading Instrument advice

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I'am currently reffiting for an extended time cruising, hoping to get to the caribbean but no rush or fixed plans but my mind has turned to upgrading my instruments.

I have decided I will probably purchase a Raymarine c95 MFD and Radar as at present I have no radar and my Plotter is a bit tired. However to keep costs down I would like to keep my Clipper wind, speed, depth, ( I know maybe not the best but they work and I find the diplays clear and simple) and my Raymarine st6002 / smartpilot autopilot.

I was thinking the radar will simply plug into the MFD but that I will then need to buy an NMEA multiplexer so I can put the Clipper instruments into the MFD and then use a seatalk to seatalkNG converter to connect the autopilot, this would then leave me a spare NMEA am I thinking along the right lines. Does anyone know also if I connect the autopilot in this way wether I wll be able to control the autopilot from the MFD, believe this would be possible with a true seatalkNG sytem but not sure with the converted one.

Thanking you in advance
 
Clipper Wind provides NMEA output but what about Clipper speed and depth NMEA output? Ok only wind information would be required for autopilot integration.
 
Will have to check course computer when I'm down at the boat again, thought I had wrote it down but can't find where now. Just looked at the clipper instructions and your right no nmea output on depth (not a major issue just would have been nice to have repeated onto an ipad via C95) output on log/speed whick i suppose makes sense as would be required for calculating true/apparent wind speed.
 
Well been down and checked today only thing on the course comouter is raymarine smartpilot having looked at the wiring and seeing it has a rudder angle sensor it must be an s1 unit, has both seatalk and nmea input/output. So been thinking could if I put the nmea out of the clipper wind into the nmea input would this info the be "forwarded" on by seatalk via the seatalkng conver to the c95. This would then only leave me the Clipper log nmea output that could go direct to the C95 nmea input, no need for a multiplexer then, if i dont worry about depth.
 
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