Compass location on 72' San Lorenzo MY 2012???

The compass is bad for the ZF JMS joystick. Boat has electric steering and ZF joystick and we have searched this boat high and low and cannot find the compass ANYWHERE. Does anyone know where it is? Can't find it or autopilot compass.

LOLOLOL, autopilot compass is still there, but nobody seems to know where San Lorenzo puts them and we've searched everywhere.

I've checked every single center bilge,with a light and thoroughly, which are a bear to get the floor panels up because it has a delicate textured wood floor and the panels fit tightly, and there's no way to get a hold on them to get them up, it's not there. I've looked in every overhead panel, which also are a bear to get down because they all slide in together, but San Lorenzo chose to use these two screws with large heads on the end to keep the last one in, but then San Lorenzo stripped the holders (nuts) that are glued in the panel/woodwork on almost every single one of them by driving the screws in with a drill, so screw and holder turn together and don't come out. Then San Lorenzo U.S. told me it's in the ceiling above the lower helm, well there isn't enough height there either. THIS is why everyone HATES Italian boats. Also pulled master ceiling apart, galley ceiling, other ceilings aren't deep enough for it. This is why everyone HATES Italian boats. The F'ING compass is supposed to be installed at water line level, in the center of the boat and midships PER ZF SPECS for the JMS joystick. SO far have had the ZF tech out and spent 12 hours @ $$$$$, I've spent 12 hours with him, tearing the entire boat apart, and still have not found it and it's an 8 year old boat.

I don't speak Italian. And the U.S. Sanlorenzo emailed the factory with the HIN number and this is exactly what the factory told them. It's in the pilot house overhead.

In the bilge, at the foot of the master stateroom bed, is exactly where ZF recommends putting it and would've been a logical place both for running the wiring from the E.R., AND where it is supposed to be mounted per ZF specs. And, the hatch there is under carpet that comes right up and actually has a pull handle.

Because I don't like working 12 hours, on things that are supposed to come apart easily to access areas of the vessel and don't come apart easy, tearing the entire boat apart, as well as working 12 hours and accomplishing NOTHING and billing the owner for accomplishing nothing.

Well how high in the boat could they have mounted it, we checked all of the center bilges all of the way to the bow thruster. We didn't even see the wire to it anywhere. It's supposed to be mounted at waterline.......and the wire runs through the engine room chase at eye level, so the ceilings of the lower level were the next logical place to look, even to just see where the wire runs.

The suction cups do not work on the wood floor because it is too grainy. We've tried 3 different brands, none of them stick to it. They could've put the little socket thing in them like Sunseeker and Princess do that the push button handle thing goes into the 5/16" hole and pulls them right up, but that would be too logical, not to mention the panels are HEAVY.

This is the compass for the JMS joystick. The wire starts port side of engine room near the front bulkhead where the ZF computers are mounted (plugs into port computer I believe), then goes in a chase at almost E.R. ceiling height on port side, We then took apart master head area and found the chase but can't find the wire in it, but wires bundled tight, but did not see it there. It is a distinct darker grey colored thick wire. All of the Sanlorenzo wiring is a very very light grey, so should stand out. It's a Maretron compass that measures 3 1/4" x 3 1/4" and 2" thick and has a distinct medium grey wiring color. Sanlorenzo ordered it with 100' of wire so it could be mounted **** near anywhere in the boat.

I believe I've checked under the midship beds, but I'll check again. We could run a new wire from port engine room (ZF computer) to the center bilge forward of the master, and that creates some challenges due to poor access to run the wire, AND we'd have to seatrial the boat and setup ALL parameters of the joystick operation(which takes hours) because the compass would now be in a different location (fore to aft).

I don't understand why these builders can't make a decent owners manual or have the info at the factory......One call to a Hatteras, Westport, Viking, Princess, Sunseeker, Searay, or even Carver dealer and you'd have the answer of the EXACT location within minutes. YET, the Italians can't do that because the sub contract half of the boats build to various subcontractors (usually the cheapest) who install the hardware anywhere they please and none of them follow the build plan and none of the builders care that they don't.

It took 12 hours just to access the few wiring bundles that we could. And, of the ones we could, you can almost reach them with one hand. Plus zip tied tight in plastic channels. Access is REALLY poor to them. They built the interior around the rest of the boat.