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When you are on your boat, how do you get daily weather forecasts?
The apparent wind steering function on autopilots is useful but we wondered how often readers actually use it. We had a lot of readers respond this week. Of those who did, 96% have an autopilot and of those 86% have an autopilot with the apparent wind steering function. Of those, 62% say they use the function Not Often or Never. 23% say they use it about half the time and 15% use it most of the time.
