[Alberg30] tiller vs wheel

[Scott]

This is an interesting thread...I personally vastly prefer a tiller - it is
like rack and pinion steering on a British sports car compared to the wheel
which I consider more vague and loose like the worm gear steering on 1973
Chevies...

On ocassion I have sailed an old Alden Schooner, Nor-Wester, (built 1926) on
Lake Michigan out of the port of Millwaukee, Wisconsin...I always over correct
when using a wheel, because I make a course correction, it seems like an hour
goes by (probably a minute or two), then when the course doesn't change, I
pull the wheel over further, then have to overcorrect back on course...I leave
a terrible zig zag!  Once I sailed with George on his Alden 29 down on the
Pamlico or Albermarle Sound two days after a hurricane...we were sailing out
of Collington Harbor...George had asked if I wanted to crew with he and his
friend the next night on a race, but after seeing the kind of course I steered
in the twenty five knot winds with his wheel, he told me we would come in
last!

Tristan the Tillerman

Scott Wallace

gahenry at zianet.com wrote:

> Having had some experience with both, the perfect feel and simplicity of
> the tiller does not compare to the sheer pleasure of sitting amidship with
> wheel before you, looking forward, guiding her along, engaged in a manner
> that a tiller does not allow.  I vote for the wheel without hydraulics etc.
>
> Gregg
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         Cruising the Chesapeake: A Gunkholer's Guide

  My favorite Chesapeake Bay guidebook. While it mentions marinas,
  it concentrates on anchorages--the kind of places I prefer to spend
  my time. And in addition to listing shore facilities, it rates each
  location for Beauty/Interest and Protection. This is the guide you
  need to really cruise the Chesapeake Bay--a smorgasbord of small
  creeks and coves.

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