I haven't tested the waterproofness of the fobs yet so I don't want to make any claims that you could do anything after you've fallen overboard yet, but it certainly would be a good safety feature for single handers if it works.ДЄnother benefit for single handers is being able to be up the front of the boat and watch sail trim and mast bend as you adjust the boat's course. Yes, I'd already thought of that and in fact I have been considering being able to make the boat automatically heave-to if you fall overboard. Having a remote with a panic button to jam the tillerto one side might be helpful (assuming you can get to the boat as it circles at high speed and can climb over the rail - actually - NEVERMIND.)ДЄt a 200m range and waterproofness, you could probably get the boat head to wind before it was out of range. I just have to keep to my rule of wearing a PFD. It makes singlehanding less tedious and I can adust stuff as much as I want without hurry (which is the cause pf problems). My tillerpilot was the best investment I've made to my boat. I guess it's better to have the functionality available and not use it rather than need the functionality and it not being available. To select Auto or Standby I've made it so you need to press the relevant button for 2 seconds to prevent accidental mode changes. (I had to program my test remote to transmit wind data to fool the Autopilot so I could select Wind Mode). Wind Mode is only selectable if the Autopilot is receiving valid data from a wind instrument so those that don't use Wind Mode won't be able to select it anyway.

Now someone else has asked about setting Wind Mode so I've added that too. I didn't originally have the mode change functions on the remote because I couldn't see the need either, but someone asked for the ability to change between Auto and Standby so I added that functionality. Dial it in course or Apparent Wind, and set it. Seems 99% of the time you turn the AP on you are at the tiller anyway. Unless your AP control head is in a really bad location, but why would you have done that? mostly turning up/down, and turning it OFF. I never thought too much about turning AP ON with the remote. Would you use the 'previous wind angle' function? If so I'll program that as well. No problem, and thanks for the kind words. I'm in for two when you are fully sorted out.

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