oohhh boy. Well Dave, Speaking from experience, you now work for B&G. They own your soul. The sooner you realise this, the easier your life will be. I started out in 2018 with a hodgepodge of B&G stuff, Robertson Autopilot and 2 Simrad Chartplotters and a couple analog processors. Why the PO had recently replaced the chartplotters with Simrad is a mystery to me, as they have limited usage for Sailboats. I spent more time below messing with that stuff in vain than sailing, till I had a friend with IT experience (and a boater) come over, and tell me which crap to cut out, and which wires to pull out,(a lot!) and once I sold my soul to Navionics, and gave them my ACH Info, bought B&G chartplotters, B&G autopilot controller, and the 5000 CPU, all my problems went away. If I had not done all this, I would be in therapy now.
Also, join the B&G group on Facebook, you will not get much tech help from B&G, and the interface is not all that intuitive. That said when you get it dialed in, it does work great, and is probably the best electronics for sailboaters. Bill Coleman Entrada, Erie PA On Fri, Jan 9, 2026 at 10:24 AM David Knecht via CnC-List < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi- Does anyone have a B&G chartplotter with Sailsteer? Aries got a new > chartplotter for Christmas (Zeus 3s) and I am trying to set it up at home > while waiting for Spring. There is the opportunity to input some target > performance data in the Laylines section, but little to no explanation of > which options to choose, what to input and how it is used in the absence of > a sailing processor (H5000 etc.). Also, the target table asks for BS (boat > speed) but our polar plots give VMG. I cannot find a full explanation of > the choices in any B&G document so far. Thanks- Dave > > David Knecht > S/V Aries > 1990 C&C 34+ > New London, CT > > [image: pastedGraphic.tiff] > > November is the time of the year when my Internet bills come in. It's > also the time when you can show your appreciation of this list and the C&C > Photo Album. Please help by making a small contribution using PayPal at: > https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/stumurray All contributions are greatly > appreciated.
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