I'd definitely use this drive with a Raymarine corepack: http://www.savinglots.com/lotprod.asp?item=OCTAF1212LAM12
Cheaper than the Raymarine linear drive, too. Fred Street -- Minneapolis S/V Oceanis (1979 C&C Landfall 38) -- on the hard in Bayfield, WI :^( On Mar 26, 2013, at 10:07 AM, "Della Barba, Joe" <joe.della.ba...@ssa.gov> wrote: > We loved the hydraulic units because a hydraulic ram is nearly > indestructible. The only thing that can really go wrong is a bad seal and > that can be fixed anywhere in the world. A bad pump can be swapped out fairly > easily in a remote spot. When the rudder was not supposed to be moving the > hydraulics lock it in place with much less strain on the device than the > mechanical drives. The linear drives are more fiddly, with gears and > bearings. They would tend to get chewed up under heavy use and are not easily > fixable in Samoa or Bermuda – they pretty much have to go back home for > repairs. Remember this is me spending other people’s money ;) Now if you > already have a linear drive it isn’t like it won’t work – they will steer the > boat. In your install make SURE there is no lost motion with the mount > flexing. That will feed back through the rudder sensor and the thing will > endlessly be going back and forth. We had boats where the HULL flexed enough > to cause this issue and we had to get reinforcements glassed in.
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