Before reading on, please take a moment to fill out our weekly survey so we can share your thoughts and experiences with the Cruising Compass family. Thanks.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n
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Many thanks to all readers who took the time to reply to last week’s survey on autopilots. Of those who answered, 98% have an autopilot on their boats. Of those, 41% have a below decks hydraulic autopilot, 35% have a below decks electric autopilot, 19% have a cockpit mounted wheel pilot and 5% have a tiller pilot. From the 2% who do not have an autopilot, half said they are planning to add one.<\/p>\n
We asked if those with autopilots had a backup steering system in case the primary pilot fails. 89% say they do and of those 85% say hand steering is their back system. 14% use a wind vane as a backup while 11% have a second backup below decks pilot, 3% have a tiller pilot and 1% have a cockpit wheel pilot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Before reading on, please take a moment to fill out our weekly survey so we can share your thoughts and experiences with the Cruising Compass family. Thanks.\u00a0 Does your boat have a traveler for the main sheet? Many thanks to all readers who took the time to reply to last week’s survey on autopilots. Of those who answered, 98% have an autopilot on their boats. Of those, 41% have a below decks hydraulic autopilot, 35% have a below decks electric autopilot, 19% have a cockpit mounted wheel pilot and 5% have a tiller pilot. From the 2% who do not have an autopilot, half said they are planning to add one. We asked if those with autopilots had a backup steering system in case the primary pilot fails. 89% say they do and of those 85% say hand steering is their back system. 14% use a wind vane as a backup while 11% have a second backup below decks pilot, 3% have a tiller pilot and 1% have a cockpit wheel pilot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":37546,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41919"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41919"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41921,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41919\/revisions\/41921"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}