Hey @BCI I see you have autopilot by your controls for kicker. Is your main tiebared to your kicker and steering off autopilot ? Curious cause I’m thinking about doing that
Ah ok that’s exactly what I want to do. I think there is 3 different systems based on what I’ve seen looks just like a bigger pump. Which one did you use ? I’ll be running a single vrod 300 tied to 15hp kickerThat Albemarle boat was twin inboard straight shaft diesels, so the kicker had it's own steering system and it's own autopilot. The kicker was only controllable from that side gunwale station. The main propulsion system had it's own autopilot system only controllable from the main helm.
If you look at the North River photos, that boat has the kicker tie-bar to the mains. That boat has one single autopilot system which controls the mains, and in turn the kicker since it's tie bar connected. On the North River I have control for autopilot at the main helm through a 4" control and also through the main chart plotter. At the aft helm I have control of the autopilot though a dedicated control panel there, and through the chart plotter there. I also have a wireless pendant to control the pilot anywhere on the boat.
Ah ok that’s exactly what I want to do. I think there is 3 different systems based on what I’ve seen looks just like a bigger pump. Which one did you use ? I’ll be running a single vrod 300 tied to 15hp kicker
I'm going with the python system for steering. It does not do speed but seems to have the least moving parts. Throttle isn't that far away at the helme for me anyway I nd you could install a throttle in the cockpit. I also like the steering wheel back there too but I dont have the real estate on mine.
Just make double damn sure you buy the longest leg you can get with power tilt. Proposing sucks.
Perfect appreciate the help.... I was already thinking the 150 but I don’t know the volume on steering cylinder still waiting for my new vrod to come in....You only need to size for the size of the ram on your single VROD300. The pump only cares about how much volume of fluid it needs to move.
Look on your steering ram on your V300 and you can read the volume of the ram.
On my Whaler 315 Conquest with twin V300s (but only single steering ram) I used a Raymarine EV150 and it's working great. (100 too small, 150 just right, 200 nice to have if you can swing it).
On the North River I had to go high current pilot and SimRad 160 pump because each F300 had it's own steering ram (making the volume of fluid to move too large for the SimRad 80 pump).
The Panther one kept dying on Dmurph. He went through three of them before moving to the Intellsteer. I believe he has been happy since, however ask him to be sure.
Heard nothing but bad things about panther....breakdowns and rebuilding constantly.... unreliable
Hmmm...think that's a different system. Powertran makes the python steering system. https://powrtran.com/product-category/python/
Too many systems so many to choose...I'd go autopilot but by the time I figured out how to use it I would be selling the boat. I just need simple steering for $1k. What I kick myself for is buying my kicker to fast without power trim. I'm positive the dealer said it wasn't available but I likely rushed into it. I also went long leg not xl... but an incident at the marina saw an cl shaft fitted and it is way better to troll with. So now I'm going to see if there is a Yamaha retro fit kit as I'm tired of hanging off the swin grid pulling it back up...way tried particularly in snotty weather.
haha I read that as price per sq ft of the boat, another play on the “fishing from the living room” joke.Any idea on the price per sq ft?
That's exactly what I thought lolhaha I read that as price per sq ft of the boat, another play on the “fishing from the living room” joke.