DPA-1
The core pilot
Steers a straight line through wind and current — compass, GPS, route and wind, for power and sail. Built for vessels 25 to 60 feet.
- Vessel
- 25–60 ft
- Drive
- 12 A · 24 A peak
- Steering
- Hydraulic or mechanical
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Deeprey Autopilot
Hands off the wheel. Never off guard.
A marine autopilot that steers by NMEA 2000 and drives the steering you already have — compass, GPS, route and wind, for power and sail. With hardware safety paths that let go of the wheel the instant something looks wrong.
The range
One computer. Every steering system.
One sealed autopilot computer drives hydraulic or mechanical steering, on power or sail. More models will join the line; today it's the DPA-1.
Indicative prices in US dollars, excluding local taxes, duty, shipping and installation. Your Deeprey dealer quotes the final price for your territory and helm.
Matching it to your boat
Sized by the load, not the length.
Two boats the same length can put very different loads on the rudder. What sizes an autopilot is displacement, steering type and rudder load — so the drive is picked to match your steering, not your length. One box drives both families, at 12 or 24 V.
Reversing pump
Hydraulic steering
A reversing pump matched to your steering cylinder volume rather than your boat length. The pilot switches the pump directly — no separate pump controller to wire in.
Linear · rotary drive
Mechanical steering
A linear or rotary drive on cable or rack-and-pinion steering. A built-in clutch output engages the drive under pilot and frees the wheel the moment you take the helm back.
Vessel guide: recreational and light-commercial boats, 25–60 ft (7.5–18 m). Your installer matches the drive to your steering and rudder load.
Steering modes
Every way you'd hold a course.
Power or sail, the pilot has the mode for it — switched from the helm without leaving the wheel unattended.
- Compass Everyday
- Holds a magnetic heading and corrects the moment the bow wanders. The mode you'll use most.
- GPS / COG Power & sail
- Holds your course over ground, trimming out set and drift so the track stays straight, not just the heading.
- Route (NAV) Hands-free passage
- Follows a route from your chartplotter, steering to the line and rolling onto each next leg to minimise cross-track error.
- Wind Sail
- Holds an apparent or true wind angle, so the sails stay trimmed as the breeze shifts.
- Tack & gybe Sail
- Turns the boat through a set angle on command, for working to windward without touching the wheel.
Built to fail safe
When something's wrong, it lets go of the wheel.
An autopilot is only as trustworthy as the way it stops. The critical protections in the Deeprey pilot are wired in hardware — they hold even if the software has crashed.
- Independent STOP
- A dedicated stop button runs on its own wire to the drive relay, around the processor entirely. Press it and the drive is dead inside 15 milliseconds — firmware crash or not.
- Hardware overcurrent trip
- If the drive jams or stalls, a hardware comparator latches the motor off in under a microsecond, before the firmware is even in the loop.
- Fail-safe disengage
- Lose the heading signal and the pilot disengages and alarms within half a second, instead of quietly holding a stale course.
- Watchdog & fault watch
- An independent watchdog opens the drive relay if the firmware ever hangs, and 16 fault conditions are monitored continuously while you steer.
- Signed updates
- Firmware updates are cryptographically signed, written to a spare bank and rolled back automatically if they don't come up clean. A bad update can't leave you without steering.
Runs on the Deeprey helm
See the chartplotter rangeSteered from the screen you already have.
The pilot shares one NMEA 2000 bus with your Deeprey chartplotter. Engage it, change modes and follow a route from any Deeprey MFD — or wire in the DPA-KP1 keypad for a dedicated set of controls at the helm.
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Installed by your local specialist.
Deeprey units are commissioned by marine electronics specialists across five continents — handling the mount, wiring, NMEA integration and first sea-trial calibration.