Help me fine tune this plan

Titan, the manual I referenced in post #6 lists all of the data the course computer will bridge to the Seatalk device when the Seatalk device and the course computer are NMEa0183 connected. I think the big addition that you may not get elsewhere is heading data, since the fluxgate compass is directly connected to the course computer. Most everything else looks like standard gps and nav data that actually originated from the Seatalk device.
 
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So I think I'm on the same page. My biggest issue was that I thought I had to come out of the new chartplotter with NMEA2000 because there's no port for it. Talk with Josh we figured out that it actually comes out with 0183 through the power plug. I'll connect that directly to my autopilot and for the time being I'm going to forget about converting my instruments over to NMEA2000. The biggest thing I'll miss is the heading sensor, but that will need to be upgraded at some point in time anyway and it'll be a NMEA2000 device. Thanks for your time and assistance Josh.

ZZ13 - I did miss that link to the manual initially, so thank you for bringing that to my attention again. That will be very helpful - in fact I already learned that the autopilot should pass everything except depth and water temp for instruments.

Thanks again to everyone and I'll let you know how the installation goes.
 
Thanks for your help. To circle back to this topic, I just finished the install. I have the chart plotter, radar, and new vhf on a new nmea2000 network and since the chart plotter will communicate both 2000 and 0183, I was able to connect it directly into the Raytheon course computer. The result is that autopilot accepts input from the chart plotter and follows a route. Very sweet. Thanks again.
 

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