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Autopilots
Time for a yearly update. I had a Bombardier Utopia - an 18'
jet-powered runabout that I added an autopilot to, but while it did work at higher speeds, it failed miserably for trolling and fishing in general. Last year I sold it and bought a center console Cobia, a 21' with a 150 hp Yamaha outboard. I added a 15 hp (smallest I could get without ordering) Suzuki outboard to use as a trolling motor. It is tied, mechanically, to the larger Yamaha and sips fuel from the same large tank. It works pretty well, and steers a straight course with no hands on the wheel. Still, I'd like to add an autopilot IF (and only if) it can operate at trolling speeds (about 1 knot or 1.5 mph). ComNav makes a few units which look like they'd work, but I'd like to hear that from someone other than the manufacturer or salesman, preferably someone who owns one. The boat is equipped with a Garmin 540 combination fishfinder/GPS chartplotter which issues NMEA sentences. -- Larry rapp at lmr dot com |
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