On many boats the emergency tiller is somewhat awkward. The only experience I have with using one was on a 45 ft. yawl (when the steering cable broke off-shore). To make it worse, the tiller had to be fitted athwartship (sideways), so the steering was quite unnatural. It was hard enough that we had to rotate the helmsman every 20-30 min. But it worked. The sail plan helped, because you could adjust the sails to keep it well balanced. But I am not sure if I would want to dock it like that in a crowded harbour.
Marek 1994 C270 Legato Ottawa, ON From: Rick Brass via CnC-List Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2019 22:50 To: cnc-list@cnc-list.com Cc: Rick Brass Subject: Re: Stus-List Emergency Tiller I have essentially the same emergency tiller and arrangement on my 1976 38mk2. The emergency tiller does actually work (I've fitted and tried it on GPs and in case I need to actually use it someday). But to use it, you need to remove the steering wheel and get it out of the way, and the effort needed to use the tiller (which ends up being vertical and pretty close to the axis of the rudder post) is quite high. I would certainly not want to be using this setup for any appreciable time offshore. Rick Brass Washington, NC
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