[Rhodes22-list] Raymarine tiller pilot installation help

[Olivier Hecht]

Cool idea...that would take my overkill here even further!  Maybe a lightweight umbilical to the drone varying power and NMEA data?

> On Jul 5, 2016, at 9:54 AM, Hank <hnw555 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Just don't sleep (or watch DVDs) like the Tesla driver!
> 
> Hank
> 
>> On Tue, Jul 5, 2016 at 9:14 AM, Michael Weisner <mweisner at ebsmed.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Olivier,
>> 
>> There must be a way to couple the Phantom 4 with the tiller control to
>> provide wind info, collision avoidance, weather and other course data.  If
>> only it could stay aloft for more than a half hour, you could get a good
>> sleep while underway.  DJI publishes a fairly complete API SDK for
>> accessing
>> the drone info ;-)
>> 
>> Mike
>> s/v Wind Lass ('91)
>> Nissequogue River, NY
>> 
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
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>> Of
>> Hank
>> Sent: Tuesday, July 5, 2016 8:45 AM
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>> Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Raymarine tiller pilot installation help
>> 
>> The issue with using a chartplotter when under sail is that the wind is not
>> generally coming from a constant heading so your sail trim will not always
>> been very good.  I used to own an Islander 36 with a chartplotter, wheel
>> pilot and a NMEA compliant wind guage and my auto pilot could then keep a
>> constant point of wind based upon the wind direction detected by the wind
>> gauge.
>> 
>> Hank
>> 
>> 
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