Mounting tiller pilot closer than recommended to pivot point on tiller.

[mattonthesea]

If you move the pin you will mess up the geometry and it won't work properly. The ST 2000 gives two critical dimensions: the distance from the centre of the rudder stock to the pin and the distance from the pin to the pivot point of the Tiller Pilot. The angle between those two dimensions must be 90 degrees.

I'm glad I didn't know that when I moved the TP pivot point. For the last five years it has been off 90 degrees and working well ? But only when motoring.

 

[LadyInBed]

Pro tip: If the tiller pilot's playing silly wotsits as you move around, take the magnetised penknife out of your pocket! It took me most a season to figure that one out!

When I had an AH1000, one winter I thought it would be a good idea to fit a remote vhf speaker into a quarter locker. The first time I used the AH I couldn't figure why I was going in circles ? until I applied fault finding first principles - what's changed?

 

[tillergirl]

What happens when you put the tiller pilot on while you go below to the heads:

Tiller Pilot by Roger Gaspar, on Flickr

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