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Originally Posted by Seanick
Since then I have fitted a Raymarine smartpilot. The ram steers a trim tab on the rudder, and the trim tab steers the rudder which is allowed to free float. You have to reverse the polarity on the wires to the ram to make this work.
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yeah, I have thought that a trimtab is the only way to get a heavy-steering boat hooked up to an autopilot.
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Originally Posted by Seanick
The jib is poled out with a gaff from an Eventide which was broken up, so I just put the gaff jaws on a shroud and hold it up with a bit of line and a rolling hitch. Its not exactly quick release! The longer (20') pole currentl fits into a hole in the capping, but the geometrey (sp) is wrong and it needs someone standing on it to stop it going skyward....
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I've often wondered how to pole things out without a mast track- food for thought.
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