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martinsokolowski
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Initially Posted - 05/26/2003 :  22:08:31  Show Profile
Below are two web site's describing self steering devices that can be easily used with the Catalina 25:

http://www.jsward.com/steering/index.shtml
http://agunther.home.donobi.net/SelfSteer.html


Martin Sokolowski
Plano, TX
martin.sokolowski@verizon.net
Catalina 25, hull #742
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Steve Kostanich
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Response Posted - 05/27/2003 :  12:13:20  Show Profile
Martin,
I have not looked at the web sites yet, and you did not say what keel configuration your boat has, but my gut feeling is, if you have a swing keel, making the boat self-steer would be very difficult. The short fore and aft length of a swinger when down, makes them pretty sensitive to leave unattended and keep tracking in a relatively straight line. My C-25 is a swing keel, and sure demonstrates that characteristic. The fin and wing keels should be all together different, and should be capeable of handling a self-steering system. Someone with one of those keel configurations might be about comment one any success they have had with self-steering. Now I'll check the web sites.

Steve Kostanich C-25 1119 Equinox sr/sk
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