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Originally Posted by rebel heart
Just hard to understand any situation where someone would be in a cabin all night long or not coming out enough that it makes sense to have remote helm control in the cabin.
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I agree with you on this - that's why I posted that I didn't see the usefulness of them. Personally, our
passage making course changes are mighty few and far between and I prefer to dodge things by disconnecting from the AP and manually
steering. Routes that require many course changes are usually associated with landmasses and
reefs - where one should be at the helm, or at least next to it. We spend all of our watches outside anyway because inside is always too hot where we sail. When we sailed in colder
weather, we had a
cockpit enclosure, which is the same as being inside, I guess.
But an hour inside
cooking or doing dishes, etc in an up
galley on most catamarans is no problem simultaneously keeping a general watch on a
passage.
Mark