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Steering accurately
From: Peter Fogg
Date: 2002 Oct 5, 10:09 +1000
From: Peter Fogg
Date: 2002 Oct 5, 10:09 +1000
Arthur Pearson wrote: > anyone who can steer within 0.5 degrees, please email me > with instructions Autohelms can do this - they can steer with an accuracy that seems beyond any mortal. We have found the best way to steer downwind flying a spinnaker, or with the headsail out on the end of a whisker pole on the side opposite the main (goosewinged) is with one person not at the helm but with a finger poised over the unit feeding in one degree correction changes as necessary.
