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Originally Posted by jorgenl
Have you tried rebooring the autopilot (i.e turn off and then on again)?
W\e had it happent to us that the autopilot did a doughnut (360 deg turn) in the middle of the gulfstream under sail at 25 kts of wind - a bit scary.
Once I got the boat under control the autopilot indicated that we were on a course of 90 deg while I was heading due west towards Florida.
M resoruceful wife solved the problem by turning of the autopilot for 5 secs and then turned it on again. Worked a charm and never had problem since.
Also check for big pieces of metal oblects that you may have placed closed to the aitopilot compass unit... |
Same experience, not once, but several times (along several years). Try to fix it and
Raymarine changed the giro
compass, but to no avail. I think that happens when the boat passes over some magnetic disturbance.
A reset of the autopilot and the chart plotter solved the problem, all the times.
Regards
Paulo