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Old 11-12-2009
GaryHLucas GaryHLucas is offline
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Another thought for you. Autopilots of any kind use a lot of power because they have to push as hard as you do to steer. However, if you rigged a trim tab on your rudder and used the tiller pilot to drive that you could radically reduce the power requirements. Brent Swain shows how to do this on his steel boats.

Gary H. Lucas
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