Sailing things right

6 May 2025

19:07 · original post in Telegram https://y-b.one/boat-life/788/

Today my friend called me while I was running circles around the boat trying to find the solution to the goddamn Raymarine autopilot failure and that gave me time to sit and think.
He tried to help me throwing ideas (to be honest I've already got a thousand from several sailors chats) but he asked me one question which lead to another in my head which was googled out and landed me at the page where some random guy had the same problem and he wrote that this problem was an officially acknowledged manufacturing failure by Raymarine. But since raymarine does not service S-series anymore, they don't even advise to fix the issue that way.
The trick is to re-solder one tiny capacitor on the autopilot computer literally upside-down.

https://www.millican.info/www/articles_view.php?editid1=22

I did it. And you know what? My compass now works like a charm!

Shame on you, Raymarine. Not every your customer is rich enough to spend over €7k momentarily on your fancy-shmancy EV-200 system.
You should share service manuals and knowledge base since you're not doing service of these devices anymore