Listers,
Yesterday, on a dinner trip to Oyster Bay, our autopilot stated to malfunction
after about an hour or so.
It would be holding a course, then start veering to port, then to starboard,
then much more to port, then much more to starboard . . and so on. Eventually,
it would get so far off (over 90 degrees), a the autopilot would disengage. I
shut it down and tried to restart it by cutting power to it for about a minute,
then it would happen again after a minute or two.
I tries setting the p70 to “performance” to keep the boat more tightly on
course, but that had no effect. The display kept showing how far off we were
(so I know the EV sensor core was working), but it wasn’t correcting course
properly.
I ended up turning it off completely, in fears of getting a DUI inquiry from
all the S-turns.
Any ideas? To clarify, I have a ACU-200 and a ST4000+ wheel pilot. And, up
until yesterday, it was working flawlessly.
All the best,
Edd
Edd M. Schillay
Starship Enterprise
C&C 37+ | Sail No: NCC-1701-B
City Island, NY
Starship Enterprise's Captain's Log <http://enterpriseb.blogspot.com/>
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