[Rhodes22-list] Tiller/motor connection pics?

[Richard Beytagh]

What's even more impressive is sailing into your moorings with no motor!
Make sure you have the sacrificial wife on the fore-deck to fend off...



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Richard Beytagh
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On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 6:27 AM, Lance Horne <lastmango68 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Mary Lou has it. The only thing I can add is that prop walk and spring
> lines can also help. Find a place away from other boats. Practice, practice
> circles and figure 8’s forward and reverse at changing speeds; change
> directions and do the same. Practice stopping upwind, downwind, crosswind,
> and with various current positions. Your hand will automatically become a
> part of the motor, throttling up and down, neutral, forward,neutral,
> reverse. Before you know it the other boaters will be envious of your
> skills. Docking and undocking can actually be fun. If I can do it you can
> also.    Last Mango
> > On Jul 18, 2016, at 9:58 PM, Olivier Hecht <ohecht at earthlink.net> wrote:
> >
> > Thanks Mary Lou, and I'm glad you and Fred are back home with Tara after
> what sounds like an epic trip!
> >
> >> On Jul 18, 2016, at 9:23 AM, Mary Lou Troy <mtroy at atlanticbb.net>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi Olivier,
> >>
> >> Just back from NC with Tara (12 days from Oriental to RH, 341 nm,
> marina-hopping all the way because of the heat) and saw your question.
> Can't help with the rudder-tiller connection as we never did it but can
> talk about operating in a marina.
> >>
> >> Here is what we discovered about maneuvering in tight spaces. Note that
> there were always two of us, often including me on the bow with the
> boathook. Part of the issue is the high-thrust Yamaha engine. That big prop
> is great for moving through choppy water but not as good as our old Honda
> for maneuvering in tight spaces or in reverse. Fred found that short bursts
> of power were more effective than slow and steady - in other words, a burst
> of power to get the boat moving and then back to neutral while you steer
> with the rudder. Easy to do with the cockpit controls but it took a lot of
> practice and finesse to get the proper amounts of throttle and neutral and
> to make the turns with the tiller at the right moment or the right amount.
> The motor is off the center line so backing in one direction is different
> than backing in the other with the prop turning. The short bursts of power
> get the boat moving but allow the rudder to do the steering.
> >>
> >> Hope this is helpful.
> >>
> >> Mary Lou
> >>
> >>
> >> At 05:45 AM 7/18/2016, you wrote:
> >>> Hello. Sailing Fretless is great but any docking or other slow speed
> maneuvers under power, especially in reverse, is proving terribly
> ineffective.
> >>>
> >>> I reached out to Stan but I guess the installation involves some
> custom work and I'd like to get a solution before I have a chance to let
> him have the boat for a while.
> >>>
> >>> Does anyone have some good close up pictures of the mechanism and/or
> part numbers?  Or other solutions that have worked?  The motor is a Yamaha
> 8hp 4-stoke in case that matters.
> >>>
> >>> Thanks in advance,
> >>>
> >>> Olivier
> >>> s/v Fretless
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