i have a friend

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sailbadthesinner

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who has one of those plastic boats
in order to stop him breaking his new rudder at sea and endangering his long suffering family
can anyone suggest a way he can avoid using it
i thought he could stream empty pot noodle pots from either side of the stern to create a drag to turn the boat
any other ideas?

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He could fit two outboard brackets on the transom, and thus steer under power without the need for a rudder. I believe another forum member may have a quantity of tropical hardwood that could be used to fabricate these brackets.

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i have only seen him use an outboard once
it refused to start on the return trip and as i recall he had forgotten the oars

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Hmm. He needs something that he can tow behind the boat to create variable resistance - which could perhaps be achieved by using some kind of hollow container with a valve and an inlet/outlet, that could be opened and closed to fill and empty the container, thus varying the drag to alter the direction of the boat.

Something like a holding tank would be ideal: I wonder if your friend has one hidden away somewhere?

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It must be a small boat if he can consider using oars. Either that or he is a big chap, with big oars, but placid so you are noo afray of him. Obviously not a small ex-pat. Glasweedgin. With a funny hat.

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Maybe he's an ex surfer with big sort of neck size hands?

Wee Killie Jimmy

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sod aff .. I've never held a tank in ma life .. I've restricted masell tae APCs!

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Tropical hardwood bulletin.

Tropical hardwood all gone, mostly in small chisel sized pieces. Bruising healing nicely.

But here's a thing. When I was skipping my bitsnpieces, yard skip was full of big bits of timber. Some nice marina company had been resurfacing a pontoon and just cut off the old planking and dumped it. Teak planks!. As much as poss came home in the boot of the car. I hope it'll clean up and plane down nicely.

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I've also heard that Fray Bentos pie tins make excellent drogues. I believe that there is someone here is somewhat of an expert in them - but perhaps he is too engrossed in deck planking at the moment.

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