It has the ST4000 factory installed and works great sailing or motoring. I now have a C350 with big batteries and a seperate starting battery. It does work while sailing, but you need to make certain that your batteries are up to the task. Eventually I just used the autopilot to hold a course for me and used the laptop with Nobeltech software to plan my course. That was pretty cool but it all used way too much battery and my Hunter did not have much of a battery. I could plot a course on the laptop, the gps would tell my laptop where we were and the laptop would tell the autopilot which way to steer. I wired in connections to a handheld style of GPS and my laptop to use and a chartplotter. I upgraded to an ST3000 years ago on my Hunter 30 because the autopilot that came with it was an earlier Autohelm without the ST in the model number. I believe the ST designation stands for SeaTalk and means that is can communicate with other devices like a laptop.
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