[Rhodes22-list] Autopilot favorites?.

[Chris Geankoplis]

Jim,

Glad your pole worked out and the price is right.  By the way, all
royalities should be sent to the Rube Goldberg foundation for the
engineeringly challanged.
Chris G
-----Original Message-----
From: Jim White <jdwhite at utpa.edu>
To: RHodes22-list at rhodes22.org <RHodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
Date: Monday, October 18, 2004 2:52 PM
Subject: [Rhodes22-list] Autopilot favorites?.


>Well.....I seem to have come up with a solution for my whisker pole a la
>Chris G., an old Boston Whaler (for the padeye), a couple of parts from
>Zimco Marine (our friendly commercial fishing supply house in Port Isabel)
>and some scrounged up parts here at the lab, and it actually works pretty
>well! I've only used it in light air, but will give it a hardcore test as
>soon as the winds abate a little (they're like 30mph+ gusting higher right
>now, 93 degrees too....a regular gen-aire effect, nobody's out).
>
>My next project prior to ordering new sails (as soon as we get another rare
>bird survey contract or two) is to install a tiller autopilot. I don't
>recall any threads concerning favorites? Is there one model ya'll like more
>than the other? Reasons? Hope I'm not rehashing old territory, if
so....sorry.
>Desde los tropicos.....gracias
>
>Jim White
>Le Menagerie
>
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