Very good video. It has been almost 20 years since I had a MacGregor 26x. We sailed along the Columbia river and some out of Newport, Oregon. I never got over being sick on the ocean but otherwise loved my time on the water. We had Chart Plotter, and radar, but not auto pilot. Our boat both sailed and power boated at 20 mph. The water ballast was very interesting. Do you ever go on the Great Lakes?
We installed the autopilot before sailing around the UK and it's been a must for us and the crew, it would've become very tidious hand steering all that way. We've been very pleased with it 👌🏼 So glad you noticed the logo, it took Gav hours to dissect the logo so it could become animated.
I just finished installing today and it won’t fire up. I went from one breaker in the panel then wirenutted the hots together putting a 5a fuse to the 5 way connector and sending the other one to the acu. I then wirenutted the commons together. I have power coming from the panel to the unit but as soon as I tie everything in I get a reading of 3 volts at the acu. Did I do something wrong?
Hey great video! Just finishing installing mine. I am just curious as to what gage of wire you used from the breaker to the IP box and from the IP box to the ACU unit? And what type of connectors did you use inside the IP box? Simply just marrettes? Thanks again!
Thank you, it were a while ago but think we used 0.75mm² tinned cable and the connector came inside the ip box, they were the chocblock style. Wago’s will work perfectly too.
T.J. Mills No we fitted this back in June. Just going to make a catalogue of short videos to hopefully help others looking to carry out the same install.
I also have an box pedestal and have to drill a hole for the motor. But shouldn't the motor be capable to hold the autopilot? Did you need the stay bracket? To me it looks like the stay bracket can't be used if the motor is fixed into the box pedestal, or should I get their extra fittings for the box pedestal, what's your experience?
Marius Håland Hi We've had no issues at all with our setup, you will need the stay bracket, they sell a flat bracket instead of the rounded bracket which is designed for a traditional round pedestal.
Slot cannot be vertically below as in the installation instructions so did you drill a new one? Also did the flat brackets holes match up with the round holes or do you have to re drill? We are trying to fit ours and having endless fun ....
We didn't have to drill anything on the kit at all, we had to drill the hole for the motor to go inside the pedastal, we also had to drill the 4 holes for the bracket to be mounted (see 2:34 ) You can email us if you want to send pics of what you are stuck on. svcompromise@gmail.com
Im trying to install one of these currently. If i go by the manuals reccs it looks like the wheel drive motor will hit my throttle controls. I see you shifted yours to the bottom left. Did this change any of the drive characteristics?
the_sailing_cyclops None whatsoever, it's works perfectly fine, except when in really heavy seas, but that's nothing to do with the position, it's the fact the wheelpilot doesn't handle extreme weather helm. Feel free to fire anymore questions over and good luck with the install Gav
I know this comment is well late but I was wondering about the sensor location I believe for best accuracy they should be mounted at the waterline on the centreline, it may have been an optical illusion but yours appeared to be to one side. How is it performing? cheers moose
Hi Moose, your absolutely right they do recommend getting as close as poss to the centreline and waterline where possible, this was as close as we could get because our steering mechanism. We’ve done around 2k Nm with it now and it’s worked perfectly, the only issue we had was my tools being too close to the sensor core so I put the tools in the opposite locker and that sorted it. Cheers Gav
@@OverlandSea thanks Gav I was curious as to whether it made a noticeable difference often the specs and recommendations reflect theoretical limits that are tighter than reality interesting real life experience
It’s managed some heavy swell but I could imagine any further off centre you could possibly have issues with the 9 axis sensor picking up the motion of the boat. How did you find the video Moose, anything I could improve on for future videos? Cheers
@@OverlandSea I think the video was great the short format works well a how to without the labouring over handskills like drilling holes and mousing wires
That’s good thanks, it’s always really helpful to get feedback, you sometimes can’t see the woods for the trees when your editing the videos. Cheers Moose 👍🏼
Unfortunately this video would be an hour long if I went through the menus, a quick look in the manual will tell you how to get there, I’ll put a link to a pdf if the manual in the description below for you.
Did this video help you?
What size breaker?
This install look incredible hard and interface to a older system next to impossible
Very good video. It has been almost 20 years since I had a MacGregor 26x. We sailed along the Columbia river and some out of Newport, Oregon. I never got over being sick on the ocean but otherwise loved my time on the water. We had Chart Plotter, and radar, but not auto pilot. Our boat both sailed and power boated at 20 mph. The water ballast was very interesting. Do you ever go on the Great Lakes?
Get you with your new swanky logo! Nice short vid. Sail safe. Ant & Cid xx
It took some making, but we're pretty pleased with it now. Following you guys with the how to bids 😜 x
Thanks for video.
This Autopilot is good for 7t weight saili g boat GAMBLER35?
You made that look easy 😬, Great work 👍⛵️
Yeh it was dead easy, only took a little over 3 mins 🤣
Excited to see it in action!
👍👍⛵⚓⛵👍👍
Nice fresh version of logo! 💞
We installed the autopilot before sailing around the UK and it's been a must for us and the crew, it would've become very tidious hand steering all that way.
We've been very pleased with it 👌🏼
So glad you noticed the logo, it took Gav hours to dissect the logo so it could become animated.
I have this unit, the compass has a cord with two wires, how does the plug go on it?
Bravo. Great video, simple and easy to follow. Subscribed.
I just finished installing today and it won’t fire up. I went from one breaker in the panel then wirenutted the hots together putting a 5a fuse to the 5 way connector and sending the other one to the acu. I then wirenutted the commons together. I have power coming from the panel to the unit but as soon as I tie everything in I get a reading of 3 volts at the acu. Did I do something wrong?
Hey great video! Just finishing installing mine. I am just curious as to what gage of wire you used from the breaker to the IP box and from the IP box to the ACU unit? And what type of connectors did you use inside the IP box? Simply just marrettes? Thanks again!
Thank you, it were a while ago but think we used 0.75mm² tinned cable and the connector came inside the ip box, they were the chocblock style. Wago’s will work perfectly too.
Fantastic video! Thanks
Thank you
Hope it helps with your install Beverley.
Ahhh...new toys!
T.J. Mills No we fitted this back in June.
Just going to make a catalogue of short videos to hopefully help others looking to carry out the same install.
I also have an box pedestal and have to drill a hole for the motor. But shouldn't the motor be capable to hold the autopilot? Did you need the stay bracket? To me it looks like the stay bracket can't be used if the motor is fixed into the box pedestal, or should I get their extra fittings for the box pedestal, what's your experience?
Marius Håland Hi We've had no issues at all with our setup, you will need the stay bracket, they sell a flat bracket instead of the rounded bracket which is designed for a traditional round pedestal.
Slot cannot be vertically below as in the installation instructions so did you drill a new one? Also did the flat brackets holes match up with the round holes or do you have to re drill?
We are trying to fit ours and having endless fun ....
We didn't have to drill anything on the kit at all, we had to drill the hole for the motor to go inside the pedastal, we also had to drill the 4 holes for the bracket to be mounted (see 2:34 )
You can email us if you want to send pics of what you are stuck on. svcompromise@gmail.com
Im trying to install one of these currently. If i go by the manuals reccs it looks like the wheel drive motor will hit my throttle controls. I see you shifted yours to the bottom left. Did this change any of the drive characteristics?
the_sailing_cyclops
None whatsoever, it's works perfectly fine, except when in really heavy seas, but that's nothing to do with the position, it's the fact the wheelpilot doesn't handle extreme weather helm.
Feel free to fire anymore questions over and good luck with the install
Gav
@@OverlandSea awesome. Thank you. I was quite nervous about drilling into my pedestool only to fail. I have a 96 hunter 280
the_sailing_cyclops
Must admit we were very nervous too, now it's done we are so happy, it saves our shoulders from long spells of helming.
Nice work. What kind of boat?
Thanks Kevin/Wendy, she's a Bavaria 38 Cruiser (40ft)
I know this comment is well late but I was wondering about the sensor location I believe for best accuracy they should be mounted at the waterline on the centreline, it may have been an optical illusion but yours appeared to be to one side. How is it performing? cheers moose
Hi Moose, your absolutely right they do recommend getting as close as poss to the centreline and waterline where possible, this was as close as we could get because our steering mechanism. We’ve done around 2k Nm with it now and it’s worked perfectly, the only issue we had was my tools being too close to the sensor core so I put the tools in the opposite locker and that sorted it. Cheers
Gav
@@OverlandSea thanks Gav I was curious as to whether it made a noticeable difference often the specs and recommendations reflect theoretical limits that are tighter than reality interesting real life experience
It’s managed some heavy swell but I could imagine any further off centre you could possibly have issues with the 9 axis sensor picking up the motion of the boat.
How did you find the video Moose, anything I could improve on for future videos? Cheers
@@OverlandSea I think the video was great the short format works well a how to without the labouring over handskills like drilling holes and mousing wires
That’s good thanks, it’s always really helpful to get feedback, you sometimes can’t see the woods for the trees when your editing the videos. Cheers Moose 👍🏼
you said follow the onscreen direction to calibrate but didn't say how to get to that screen
Unfortunately this video would be an hour long if I went through the menus, a quick look in the manual will tell you how to get there, I’ll put a link to a pdf if the manual in the description below for you.