Thread: Autopilot
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Old 03-05-2017, 05:41 PM   #38
what_barnacles
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Originally Posted by seabum View Post
For over ten years I have had my sailboat plotter feed way points to my autopilot. When we are in really poor viability situations, and I am on a known track to a known marker, this will hold my destination track perfectly ensuring safe passage. If I were just using it to hold a heading I could easily be on a parallel course right over shallow waters or rock outcrops. It can be a pain to make the units interface but once done you will love it.
Always easier to interface garmins to garmins or raymarines to raymarines.... Always.
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