I have no experience with the 32 so should not comment but I have an early 33 (1975) which was converted from wheel to tiller by a prior owner. In our case we would have it no other way. Our only modification was to replace the tiller with a longer version so my wife, the skipper sits up against the bulkhead on the seat or the combing. When tacking the crew is behind the skipper working the primary winches which are aft of the seats. In this way the crew stands over the winch to get maximum leverage and the skipper's view is not obstructed by the crew during tacking or gibing. If racing is your main activity I believe this is the way to go. It also keeps the weight forward except during tacks and gibes. As far as cockpit space is concerned, we have not seen this as a problem. And while not sailing, the tiller can be raised out of the way against the backstay. That's my two cents. Good luck with your conversion. Dave. C&C 33 SLY
Sent from my iPad > On Nov 15, 2016, at 5:22 AM, Hoyt, Mike via CnC-List <cnc-list@cnc-list.com> > wrote: > > Rod > > Another option is to move your winches further aft to the spinnaker winch > location. If you do not sail with a crew this is a good option and is how > Persistence was set up when we bought it. Unfortunately for a crewed > situation or for racing you have your spinnaker trimmers facing a bit aft and > twisted while trimming genoa. For those reasons we reconfigured our boat > back to its original configuration with primaries forward, spinnaker (or > secondaries) aft and a set of winches on coachroof for halyards and other > control lines. That said for your purposes it may be an option and is not > difficult nor expensive to do. > > Mike > Persistence > Halifax > > From: CnC-List [mailto:cnc-list-boun...@cnc-list.com] On Behalf Of roderick > anderson via CnC-List > Sent: Monday, November 14, 2016 7:27 PM > To: cnc-list@cnc-list.com > Cc: roderick anderson > Subject: Re: Stus-List Thinking of a Wheel to Tiller Conversion > > Mike, that's a great idea and that would work well for me. Oddly enough my 32 > was never rigged for a spinnaker but I can certainly take care of that. > Thanks! > Rod > > _______________________________________________ > > This list is supported by the generous donations of our members. If you wish > to make a contribution to offset our costs, please go to: > https://www.paypal.me/stumurray > > All Contributions are greatly appreciated!
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