Hey All! I'm on board! (and looking 4 an old nautech autohelm 2000 manual)

[BlowinSouth]

Hi all,

Well I'm finally on board after 6 months of searching for the right boat. I'm at anchor near the mouth of the Niantic River, in Niantic, CT. (hey I better change my location on here, no longer New Mexico) My dog is not sure what to think of this new lifestyle.

The boat came with an OLD autohelm 2000 made by Nautech, not Raytheon.

It has a seperate tiller control unit and an external compass device about the size of an oil can with a knob on top that you turn to the compass heading that you want to steer.

It's not installed so I don't even know if it works, but I'm looking for a manual for it. I've searched the web to no avail. Anyone out there have a manual for this antique??

Thanks, Steve & Kirby (my dog)

[teshannon]

Steve & Kirby,
Can't help with the manual but welcome to Sailnet. Glad you're on the water and with us. Niantic is a lovely place. Good luck.

[Freesail99]

What kind of boat is it ?

[uspirate]

Steve, did you get the Tartan 30? my bro had one of those antiques on his tub, he didnt have a manual either but IIRC it was simple to use. we had our doubts about it too being old but actually worked pretty good.

[BlowinSouth]

Originally Posted by Freesail99

What kind of boat is it ?

'71 Tartan 30 Hull no. 9

Thanks Pirate, thats good to know. I hooked this one up the other day and it seems to work well too. I'll probably get a new one and keep this as a spare.

[t.tilley]

Steve -

The old/legacy Autohelm user manuals are still on the Raymarine site. Go to the Raymarine.com site, select "Customer Service", then on the Retired Manuals list, select Autopoilts, etc. (This is for all you others doing a search for old Autohelm and Nautec manuals.)

Here is the link - replace "#" with "." and remove the space after the slashes "/" (I'm a newbie and can't post links)
www#raymarine# com/ SubmittedFiles/ Handbooks/ Legacy_Handbooks/ Autopilot/ AH2000.pdf

Hope this helps you.

TomT
S/V Lenochka
1982 Cal 9.2