Chapter 2: Advanced Operation
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Operating hints for Wind Vane mode
•
Always trim your sails carefully to minimize the amount of standing
helm.
•
Reef the headsail and mainsail a little early rather than too late.
•
In Wind Vane mode the SmartPilot will react to long-term wind shifts, but
will not correct for short-term changes such as gusts.
•
In gusty and unsteady inshore conditions, it is best to sail a few degrees
further off the wind so that changes in wind direction can be tolerated.
2.3 How do I display boat data?
Use the
disp
key to show ‘data pages’ of SeaTalk or NMEA data:
1. Press
disp
to access the first data page, and press it again to cycle through
each data page in turn:
•
when you cycle past the last data page, the display returns to the cur-
rent SmartPilot mode screen (for example,
AUTO
)
•
4 data pages are set in the factory as a default (see diagram): within
User setup you can select up to pages and control the information
they display (see
page 23
)
Notes: (1)
If the SmartPilot system cannot obtain the required informa-
tion, the data page will show dashes instead of a value.
(2)
The direction-to-steer arrows relate to the data page
information.
Wind
AutoTack - Starboard
D5399-2
Wind
AutoTack - Port
AutoTack
angle
AutoTack
angle
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