Reversing woes.

[Iliade]

I imagine that the play in the tiller connection would make it well nigh impossible to steer a good course astern! Well done for achieving what you have. That's definitely one to address as soon as possible before it gets to the '45 degrees of slack' point and starts to rotate freely.

Once that's fixed you can start going astern with more confidence until, if you have a nicely unbalanced large rudder, the rudder angle gets overly large and the tiller sweeps you to the pushpit and pins you there. DAHIK! ;0)

 

[solent clown]

I imagine that the play in the tiller connection would make it well nigh impossible to steer a good course astern! Well done for achieving what you have. That's definitely one to address as soon as possible before it gets to the '45 degrees of slack' point and starts to rotate freely.

Once that's fixed you can start going astern with more confidence until, if you have a nicely unbalanced large rudder, the rudder angle gets overly large and the tiller sweeps you to the pushpit and pins you there. DAHIK! ;0)

Yes, it is at the top of my list, hope to get it done over the weekend. :encouragement:

 

[saab96]

We had similar problem with our canal boat so we used our pole (all narrow boats carry a long pole) to push the stern off then we motored out backwards into deeper water.