Are there any installed on a CD? Any ideas on how well one would work with a CD33? Are there any other boats you know of that are using the YP500? Whats the feedback on them?
Thanks!
Rick@citycom.com
Back to the autopilots. Any input on the Navico YP500?
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Patrick Turner
Re: Back to the autopilots. Any input on the Navico YP500?
The YP500 is faster,stronger,quieter than the autopilot ST4000+, but I'm not sure you can hook up to other electronics unless you use the optional hand held remote; wich I understand gets very good reviews.
Have you ever heard of the CPT Autopiot II? It is currently being manufactured by the same people who bring you the Monitor Wind Vane.It is the the strongest,most reliable wheel piot available. It's two short comings are that it is a course "keeper" not a course "seeker". You can not enter a bearing or way point, hit a button and expect the autopilot to go "there". You must take a course, dial it into the control unit then hit the button and it will stay there. Very simple, but very stong and reliable. And it will not "talk" to other electronics. It is designed for one thing......keep this course. It runs about $1100.00.
I belive with a CD33 you'd be bumping up against the upper limits of most wheel autopilots unless you just use it for motoring and light wind/sea conditions. You need to factor in a 25% less than stated, handeling capacity for the autopilot you are considering. If the literature says the autopilot will handel a boat up to 13,000 pounds, figure it is really suitable for a boat up to 10,000 lbs in stronger winds or choppy seas.
My brother owns a CD33 and has an autohelm st3000 or st4000 and sez he hardly ever uses it cause it works like sh*t. I think it is just too small for his boat.
I am still in the process of trying to figure out which way to go myself and would like to hear from others out there. The Nexus auto pilot looks like a very good one. Autonav (a vey well respected autopilot maker) uses the Nexus electronics in their systems and the Nexus ram is the same one used in the B&G autopilot...another very well known name in autopilots.Sounds like all the peices are there without the larger price tag of the bigger names.....still not as cheap as a wheel mounted autopilot tho.
Pat
patturner@earthlink.net
Have you ever heard of the CPT Autopiot II? It is currently being manufactured by the same people who bring you the Monitor Wind Vane.It is the the strongest,most reliable wheel piot available. It's two short comings are that it is a course "keeper" not a course "seeker". You can not enter a bearing or way point, hit a button and expect the autopilot to go "there". You must take a course, dial it into the control unit then hit the button and it will stay there. Very simple, but very stong and reliable. And it will not "talk" to other electronics. It is designed for one thing......keep this course. It runs about $1100.00.
I belive with a CD33 you'd be bumping up against the upper limits of most wheel autopilots unless you just use it for motoring and light wind/sea conditions. You need to factor in a 25% less than stated, handeling capacity for the autopilot you are considering. If the literature says the autopilot will handel a boat up to 13,000 pounds, figure it is really suitable for a boat up to 10,000 lbs in stronger winds or choppy seas.
My brother owns a CD33 and has an autohelm st3000 or st4000 and sez he hardly ever uses it cause it works like sh*t. I think it is just too small for his boat.
I am still in the process of trying to figure out which way to go myself and would like to hear from others out there. The Nexus auto pilot looks like a very good one. Autonav (a vey well respected autopilot maker) uses the Nexus electronics in their systems and the Nexus ram is the same one used in the B&G autopilot...another very well known name in autopilots.Sounds like all the peices are there without the larger price tag of the bigger names.....still not as cheap as a wheel mounted autopilot tho.
Pat
patturner@earthlink.net