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AUTOSTEERING- Auto pilot install and repair 40 years experience.

Starting back when we repaired tons of Benmar hunting relay autopilots, the Robertson autopilots started hiting the scene with a new term called “algorithms” that could adapt your pilots steering to your boats performanc automatically. Today, the award winning autopilot to own is the Furuno. Hands down, our favorite autopilot by far. It has every upside, a clear winner for you as a cruiser or sport fisher. Autopilot experts can't do what we can do to steering in general, no way. We know the black magic of hydraulic steering design and repair and rudder expectations. A pilot won't work on a poor steering design. Just getting a auto pilot is great. We have three autopilots on some of the boats.
Hydraulic steering, mechanical, cable, quadrant, cylinder, outboard, and inboard—nav to waypoint, nmea 0183, nmea 2000 doesn't matter, we can auto steer any boat, anywhere you desire. Yes, we said even your 40 year old benmar or sperry. The bigger the autosteering challenge, the more you need us! There isn't much competition for the type of component-level repair we do. Here are just a few we commonly repair:
  • Sperry's
  • Wesmar
  • Encrons
  • Denmark
  • Cetrek
  • Robertson
  • Simrad
  • Navico
  • Raymarine
  • WH pilot
  • Comnav
  • Garmin
  • Wh pilot
  • Woodfreeman
  • Navico
We have fixed them all and heard every complaint for over 4 decades. Hearing about all the ways a boater can loose their steering and how important it is has helped us build tougher systems. Not fun hand steering is it? Rudders, rudder post, rudder feedback senders, remotes, nmea 2000, point to steer, you name it, we can make your boat steer better than you can. That's a promise. Lastly, every pilot should use a sat compass. They are amazing. Furuno’s sat compass SC30 is basically a $60,000 gyroscope for only $2000. Plus, it talks to your fishfinder, correcting for wave height, pitch, roll, and yaw. Gives me goose bumps thinking about how much better a sat compass is over a magnetic compass. 3 autopilot sales outfits in SD are owned by guys who Greg trained or showed them their 1st boat and then let them go or were fired for good reason. You can't just sell new everytime. You have to fix something. You can't underbid job then slam it into the boat with little offshore awareness. Get your new autopilot here. new gear is Delivered every Tuesday and Thursday.
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