Raymarine SmartPilot w/Gyro

[BobJ]

I'm replacing my Raymarine autopilot with the new model and I'm selling the complete old system, $595.

S1G computer (with rate gyro and AST), 6001 control head, fluxgate compass, tiller-mounted drive unit, manuals, and your choice of either a new rotary rudder transducer or linear rudder transducer. The need for the rudder reference transducer is the only reason I'm replacing the system - the new pilots don't require one.

S1G Corepack: http://www.raymarine.com/ProductDetail.aspx?SITE=1&SECTION=2&PAGE=1850&PRODUCT=1573

ST6001 Control Head: http://www.raymarine.com/productdetail.aspx?site=1&SECTion=2&page=160&PRODuct_id=266

The system is currently installed and works well - my autopilot problems in the 2008 SHTP were due to the tiller pin breaking at the weld, not the pilot itself.

 

[ronnie simpson]

daaaaaaamn. i paid that for a new ST2000 tiller pilot a few months back...

if i wasn't broke, i'd buy that right now. someone is going to be sitting pretty for 600 bones....

so, all it needs to be functional is a masthead wind instrument?

 

[Jonathan Gutoff]

I'll take it if it's still available.

 

[BobJ]

It sounds like Jonathan has it. I'll repost if something changes.

Ronnie, it works fine steering to a compass heading which is what I do around here. But yes, with wind input (preferably also Raymarine/SeaTalk), the pilot will adjust for wind shifts (apparent or true).

I have some cool video from SHTP 2008 (taken with one of Jonathan's cameras, coincidentally) with the pilot steering in 20+ in the trades. The boat starts to broach and the pilot drives the boat back under the kite. I don't know how the gyro circuitry works but it's pretty amazing . . .

. . . until you break a tiller pin!