Tortuga's Lie wrote:
curious: How many people with wheel pilots have no issues while sailing in moderate to heavy conditions?
Same ST4000+ did pretty well in it's day, but now blinks out under stress and restarts in standby. Before that lovely feature though, it would only start hunting wildly in the 25+ knot/6+ft seas type of day. Really I think it was more subject to craziness when the boat was overpowered in big waves. Often times a reef would improve its performance.
But yes, at some point in the waves it would be always on, always over correcting, and we'd have to relieve him (Named Otto of course) of his duties to save the battery and our sanity. (gets noisy when it's leeeft -riiiiight- leeeeft)
We'll be looking to go linear in the next couple seasons as well but I'm waiting for the right electronics package to marry with the new B&G NMEA2k everything else. Presently, the ST4000 can only read stats and waypoints that my PC converts and sends on the dedicated 0183 line going just to the autohelm.