Friday 9th June 28 38.399N 60 56.861W
Persephone... Cruiser/Racer
Nigel & Karen Goodhew...
Fri 9 Jun 2017 18:29
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Yesterday was frustrating. Very little wind, all
from behind. We struggled to keep Persephone moving and finally, in the evening,
resorted to engine.
Then the fun started! Suddenly, it was clear
that Persephone, under the command of FRED, the autopilot, had started
pirouetting in tight circles all on her own. The pilot had lost the plot!
We disengaged it, switched it off and on again and retried. The same thing
happened.
So we reverted to manual steering and sought out
the documents which come with the Raymarine Pilot. The other thing we noticed is
that the pilot head unit seemed to e scrolling through headings, round the
compass card.
So we followed intuition, and performed the
seatrial compass swinging routine....turn the boat slowly round in circles etc,
and that seemed to do the trick....for an hour or so, and then the whole
performance started again.
Eventually, with more switching on and off, we
settled the thing down and it has been fine since.
Only 98 miles covered yesterday. Tim is guiding us
through this calm bit of the Atlantic, but for the time being, we re heading
North West, towards Bermuda as it is the only direction we can sail in where
there is wind!
This could be a long, slow
journey....
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