[PUP] emergency tiller

bob Austin thataway4 at cox.net
Mon Mar 17 00:26:49 EDT 2008


With the stabalizer fins--as soon as they move, or the boat rolls, that
changes the center of lateral resistance, and the boat will drift off course.
Even locking the fins will not prevent this.

With many long keel sailboats--and even some short fin and skeg rudder they
will hold course some peroids of time.  My current boats will hold the course
for a number of minutes after the helm is released.

Unfortunately it is the characteristic of the boat


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