self-steering gear

Mechanical self-steering gear is made by a number of manufacturers, but most share the same principle.

When single-handed and using self-steering gear it is usually fatal.

Self-steering gear is equipment used on ships and boats to maintain a chosen course without constant human action.

Several forms of self-steering gear exist, divided into two categories: electronic and mechanical.

Autopilots are used in aircraft, boats (known as self-steering gear), space craft, missiles, and others.

Autissier has surmised that the yacht's self-steering gear may have gone haywire.

On 3 November, his self-steering gear had failed for the last time, as he had used up all his spares.

Alongside instrumentation, B&G also designs and manufactures self-steering gear for sailing yachts.

Race organizers learned through Autissier's shore crew yesterday that the capsizing appeared to be the result of a problem with the boat's self-steering gear.

"See the wind vane self-steering gear?

"Where's the self-steering gear?"

Most people understand an autopilot to refer specifically to aircraft, but self-steering gear for ships, boats, space craft, and missiles is sometimes also called autopilot.

Self-steering gear (Autohelm / Autopilot)

I was becoming a better helmsman out of sheer practice, but I was also discovering that the self-steering gear had a big advantage--it never got tired.

Self-steering gear, such as wind vanes and electronic autohelms, tend to take on a life of their own, leaving two skippers on board, one mechanical, one real.

GNSS may be connected to the ships self-steering gear and Chartplotters using the NMEA 0183 interface.

One of my newfound friends on Tenerife has repaired my self-steering gear, and the pilot chart promises that there is only a 2 percent chance of encountering gales.

CHAPTER FIVE Captain Richard Aston, US Navy, soon to be retired, lounged back and watched Amanda's self-steering gear work.

Hasler is known as the father of single-handed sailing, owing to his invention of the first practical self-steering gear for yachts: many sailing vessels continue to rely on systems substantially based on Hasler's work.

I drilled holes in the stern and bolted on a prefabricated steel bracket, then mounted the large, Hasler wind vane self-steering gear, leading the control lines to the helm, using Toscana's similar but smaller installation as a guide.

Despite losing his self-steering gear off Australia, he rounded Cape Horn on 17 January 1969, 20 days before his closest competitor Bernard Moitessier, who subsequently abandoned the race and sailed on to Tahiti.

This is achieved either by a connection to the main wheel or tiller (typically involving a complex arrangement of lines and blocks rigged around the stern of the boat) or by fixing the main steering in place and equipping the self-steering gear with its own rudder.