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I also posted this under the “below deck Autopilot” just in case..
Hello all:
My 83 37 ketch has a Raymarine AP on it that never really tracked well in heavy wind. I spoke to a Raymarine Factory Rep at a recent boat event and he felt that a rudder postion sensor was needed to properly correct the units handling commom with most semi full keel boats.. He was gracious enough to mail me a complete unit for FREE, a rare thing these days.. Seems they now include this unit in with all newer AP.
Anyway, the question I have pertains to the installation. Has anyone mounted such a sensor on thier Ketch? If so, how was it done? As we know the D’s use a quadrant on the rudder post. Any pix of the intstall would be very helpful and worth more than words..LOL
Thanks
Jon BoubOn my old AP and the new one, one end of the connecting rod was connected directly to the quadrant. The sensor was mounted on a small platform that was mounted to a stringer near the rudder post. The mount on the quadrant was about the same distance from the center of the rudder post as the length of the sensor arm.
On my new AP, I used the same connector as the old one, but had to make a new platform for the sensor and moved it so it is not quite the same but very similar none the less.
I don’t have any pictures as it was hard to get any pictures in such a tight space. Hope this description will give you some ideas.
Steve
I just saw your popst concerning installation of a rudder sensor for your D37. I installed a Ray Marine Wheelpilot last year with the rudder sensor on my D36 sloop. The rudder sensor has to be mounted in the same plane as the rudder quadrant and off to one side.
There is a connecting rod from the rudder sensor to a small “tiller” that you mount on the quadrant. The problem I had was the fact that my quadrant is on a 30 degree slope so the sensor unit had to be mounted on the same slope and about 12 inches to one side of the center of the rudder post. I made up a platform that I could slide under the cockpit floor and attach in the proper position. The real difficulty was access for the mounting. I don’t have any pictures but next weekend I will bring my digital camera and see what I can do about getting some for you. Hope I’m not too late with this response.Bob S.
No, not late at all. Spent last weekend getting the hull in shape..
Will look to start installation perhaps this weekend. So any pix would be great.Thanks all for the responses.
Ohana
Jon Boub
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