Important Information; Warning: Electrical Safety; Warning: Navigation Aid - Raymarine SeaTalk Owner's Handbook Manual

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Important information

Safety notices
WARNING: Product installation & operation
This equipment must be installed and operated in accordance
with the Raymarine instructions provided. Failure to do so could
result in personal injury, damage to your boat and/or poor product
performance.

WARNING: Electrical safety

Make sure you have switched off the power supply before you
start installing this product.

WARNING: Navigation aid

Although we have designed this product to be accurate and
reliable, many factors can affect its performance. Therefore, it
should serve only as an aid to navigation and should never replace
commonsense and navigational judgement. Always maintain a
permanent watch so you can respond to situations as they
develop.
Your SmartPilot will add a new dimension to your boating enjoyment. However, it
is the skipper's responsibility to ensure the safety of the boat at all times by
following these basic rules:
• Ensure that someone is present at the helm AT ALL TIMES, to take manual
control in an emergency.
• Make sure that all members of crew know how to disengage the autopilot
(see the Smart-Pilot Quick Start Guide)
• Regularly check for other boats and any obstacles to navigation – no matter
how clear the sea may appear, a dangerous situation can develop rapidly.
• Maintain an accurate record of the boat's position by using either a naviga-
tion aid or visual bearings.
• Maintain a continuous plot of your boat's position on a current chart. Ensure
that the locked autopilot heading will steer the boat clear of all obstacles.
Make proper allowance for tidal set – the autopilot cannot.
• Even when your autopilot is locked onto the desired track using a navigation
aid, always maintain a log and make regular positional plots. Navigation sig-
nals can produce significant errors under some circumstances and the autopi-
lot will not be able to detect these errors.
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