[Rhodes22-list] Tiller Tamer

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Correction...Im 250! Oh yeah!
Chris Greco
On Nov 15, 2014 2:39 PM, "Christopher Greco" <chrissailorman at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Im 205...and usually find myself on a fairly long tack along Long Islands
> Great South Bay..sitting on the port rail and wondering how long I can hold
> this course before it gets too crazy!
> On Nov 15, 2014 2:13 PM, "The Rhodes 22 Email List" <
> rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org> wrote:
>
>> Sorry, had to jump back in one more time. I'm procrastinating (see below
>> my
>> signature).
>>
>> The beauty of the rudder lasts for anywhere from a few minutes to a few
>> hours - but as some point it transitions to what is affectionately known
>> as
>> the "tyranny of the tiller".
>>
>> It's at this point that you really want to have something else tending the
>> tiller - whether a tiller pilot or a sheet to tiller system. If you're on
>> a
>> relatively small inland lake or river, you need to stay at the tiller. If
>> you're sailing on bigger water with fairly long distances to your next
>> waypoint, you'll drive yourself crazy just locking the tiller (or sitting
>> and babysitting it).
>>
>> I'm 210 pounds, and moving around the boat *does* significantly change its
>> direction. As soon as the boat changes bearing, the set of the sails is
>> all
>> wrong relative to the wind, and Mother Nature takes over as navigator.
>> It's
>> anyone's guess where she'll take me (onto that beach, into the trees,
>> onto a
>> sandbar... ) - but it's rarely where I intended.
>>
>> End of procrastination. <sigh>
>>
>> Dennis
>> Magic Moments
>> ... off to replace the water pump in a VW TDI. In the snow.
>>
>>
>>
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>> Sounds like overkill to me... just sail the boat and enjoy it. Thats  .
>> The beauty of a RUDDER.  Feel the boat.
>>
>> <snipped>
>>
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