Our New Crew Member

Our last boat had both a wind vane and an electric autopilot, this contingency gave us a lot of comfort given we usually sail with just the two of us. The self steering system acts as our extra crew (they were named Arthur and Malcolm on ReVision II).

As this boat is bigger and we really wanted to have dinghy davits we will have to rely on just one self steering system, which will be a Raymarine Evolution autopilot with linear drive and a spare arm ready for a quick switch over should a failure occur.

We just approved the following installation of the spare arm, which is underneath the bed in the aft cabin and tucks neatly alongside the ducting for the air-conditioning. Now we just need to think of a name for this new member of the crew with his spare arm.....