sheet to tiller steering on a short boat

[dylanwinter]

three films

three systems

(the sound is terrible on all of them so turn off your speaker)

straight to the boom

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQNBlrg0VyI&NR=1

straight to the mainsheet

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NokZpCJIuBg

via a wooden thingy on the jib sheet

http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=2-CYP6GMkwM


anyone here had much experience?

Katie L is pretty well balanced so I am optimistic that I can make it work

tried it on the slug and it was a failure

Dylan

 

[V1701]

I was on board with a friend when he tried the first method (attached to boom) on his boat, a heavy wooden long keeled 32 footer that's very heavy on the tiller at times, with some success. It was a first try & we reckoned that experimenting with different strengths of bungee in different conditions & points of sail it would definitely be doable...

However, you might find that you could get results with something even simpler than any of those methods, see here, he starts talking about the self steering just over 3 minutes in. Good luck with it...

 

[VicS]

There was an article in PBO 118 by Mike Saunders on sheet to tiller systems.

Another by Nick Skeates in PBO 143

Neither probably worth the reprint fee but maybe worth a dive into the cobwebbed, rat infested corners of the garage

 

[dylanwinter]

but

I was on board with a friend when he tried the first method (attached to boom) on his boat, a heavy wooden long keeled 32 footer that's very heavy on the tiller at times, with some success. It was a first try & we reckoned that experimenting with different strengths of bungee in different conditions & points of sail it would definitely be doable...

However, you might find that you could get results with something even simpler than any of those methods, see here, he starts talking about the self steering just over 3 minutes in. Good luck with it...

the boat is steering itself

he is not actually using sheet to tiller steering

one of the advantages of a vega

Dylan

 

[V1701]

the boat is steering itself

he is not actually using sheet to tiller steering

one of the advantages of a vega

Dylan

Well it's certainly not sheet to tiller & I know the Vega is an excellent boat D) but I doubt they could go days abandoning the tiller & letting the boat steer herself!