I finally got a chance to take few pictures of the completed installation of our Raymarine S-1000 autopilot. I "borrowed" Marvin's idea and expoxied a piece of oak to the bulkhead to mount the electronics unit on. I mounted the pump on a piece of marine board which I through bolted to the cabin wall. I did this in case I want to mount a box over the pump to quiet down the noise. If I do want to do I can make a box, slip it over the pump and attach to the marine board with screws. But I don't find the pump noise all that bad and it actually reassures me that the autopilot is functioning.All in all I like the unit; we have used it several times and the previous posts concerning the S-1000 performance are right on. It's great for following a course, it is touchy when you first engage it and it doesn't take course corrections well. When a course correction is signaled the unit displays the correct heading but it rarely adjust to it properly. I have found it easier to disengage make the correction manually and then re-engage the autopilot.
The installation was straight forward and configuration was pretty easy. I got my Garmin cables confused at first but once I started using the GPS wires everything went great!
I added a few pictures to our album to show the installation.
On a side note we recently visited Anegada in the BVI for our 30th anniversary and I caught some very nice bonefish while we were there. So I added a picture of one of the fish caught there, enjoy.