Steering
 

Hi

very well set up boat

so you make a system for a single outboard, Mercury 300SX?

Cheers

Trevor

Hi Peter looks awesome, if that is the boat you are bringing to Florida you may want to rethink the black, that thing will be on fire with the sun we have here especially in the summer.

Thanks Trevor,
Development of the fly-by-wire steering will focus on stern drive and shaft drive boats to start with but i am also looking at a smaller battery powered version for outboards but that is some time in the future.

Peter

Thanks pstorti,
The red and black boat is staying in cold and drafty England where a bit of heat soak is very welcome most of the time... the Outerlimits is coming to Florida and we have gone for much lighter colours to take account of your hotter climate.

Peter

Peter,
Another application of this could be for competition ski boats. Right now our tournament boats are GPS speed controlled. The tournament boats will pull a skier through a 900 foot slalom course at an exact speed at an error of less than 1/100th of a second no matter if its a 50lb kid or a 225 lb adult capable of really slowing the boat down. The steering of the boat is the only thing the tournament driver has to manage now. The boat path is evaluated by end course cameras and must be accurate to an inch or two at each boat gate......not always something that average tournament drivers can do. On our committees GPS steering has been discussed and would be welcomed. There is a significant market for this. I believe that a company called E-controls is doing the speed control now.