Connecting a new Raymrine linear drive to a steering quadrant

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The rudder itself washed up a long time later, Ireland I think, so the split area was identified. Info from Hanse employee, as I had a Hanse 312 at the time.

Near Campbeltown apparently. Whilst the MCIB are not in the same league as MAIB there is a detailed analysis of the rudder stock in the report I linked to above. No definite conclusions really, with excessive surface roughness and a mysterious V notch perhaps formed by the autopilot, with no definitely identifiable machanism, being the causes favoured by the report. The owner, who was incidentally the local Hanse agent at the time, expressed the opinion in attached correspondance that the tapered stock was a factor.

 

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Hi - this thread is a couple years old but I'm wondering if knuterikt (post #13) is still around. His 90 degree angled stainless steel tiller arm is the only one of its kind that I've been able to find, in an extensive search. I'm trying to fit a belowdecks autopilot on a C&C Landfall 38 which doesn't have enough rudder shaft space to fit any of the standard production tiller arms (Edson, Jefa, Lewmar).

A 90 degree angled tiller arm (see picture in post #13) could potentially work because it would bolt on within the concave area of the Edson radial drive and then clear the radial drive rim. But I'm not sure if this design has been tested under heavy loads - it would seem that a lot of torsional force would be going onto the thrubolts? Also not sure where one would order parts to build something like that.