Raymarine ST60+ Owner's Handbook Manual page 25

Chapter 2: Installation
The wind vane base must be horizontal. If necessary, make up a suitable packing
piece to provide a horizontal mounting surface.
You can fit your wind vane so the cable leaves the wind vane base either from the
rear (option A), or from underneath (option B), as in the following
cable options
View from underneath showing
Wind vane cable options
A wind vane is typically mounted on a mast top, as follows:
1. Mark the mounting surface for drilling. The recommended method for doing
this depends on which cable option you intend to use:
• For cable option A, place the wind vane base in the intended position, and
• For cable option B, use the template at the rear of this handbook, to mark
2. Drill the mounting surface for the cable option you intend to use:
• For cable option A, drill a 4 mm hole at each of the marked locations for
• For cable option B, drill a 4 mm hole at each of the marked locations for
illustration.
Option A
arrangement of cable
mark the position of the two fixing screw holes.
the position of the two fixing screw holes and the cable hole.
the fixing screw holes.
the fixing screw holes and an 8 mm hole at the marked location for the
cable.
Packing piece, if required
Option B
Mounting
surface
Cutaway view, showing
arrangement of cable
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Wind vane
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