{"id":1433,"date":"1999-11-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1999-11-30T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/?p=1433"},"modified":"2015-10-16T12:11:53","modified_gmt":"2015-10-16T17:11:53","slug":"autopilot-back-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/autopilot-back-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Autopilot Back-up"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"question\">\n<p>Hello and thank you for reading this. On two previous transatlantic passages I used a Plastimo belt driven wheel unit in the cockpit as a backup to my primary Robertson autopilot. The unit worked well. It was purchased in 1989 and has been discontinued. I am departing shortly for a long passage and would like to know the best alternative on the market today. The steering on our 48&#8242; custom built Al Mason Ketch is hydraulic. I want the strongest, most reliable unit available. This will be mounted in the cockpit as a backup to the primary autopilot. Thanks for any assistance, Steve <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"answer\">\n<p>Hi Steve: If you want the best, most reliable pilot, check out WH Pilots in Bainbridge Island, WA. It is what we&#8217;ve used for years and have found nothing that comes close on reliability or steering capability in big seas. You can contact them at pilotwhale@worldnet.att.net Good Luck &#8211; Steve Dashew <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello and thank you for reading this. On two previous transatlantic passages I used a Plastimo belt driven wheel unit <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/autopilot-back-up\/\">&#8230;Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech-talk","category-self-steering-faqs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1433"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1433"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36311,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1433\/revisions\/36311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}