[Alberg30] tiller vs wheel

[vinegar joe]

as an alberg 29 owner, i've got a wheel.  there are
pluses and minuses to everything, and when compared to
a tiller, i'd have to say the wheel comes in second
(responsiveness and simplicity are clearly in the
tiller's corner).
however, the wheel hasn't been hard to get use to and
it wouldn't be a feature on which i would rule in or
out a boat that i was interested in purchasing.  but i
sure as heck would think long and hard before
converting a tiller to a wheel, especially where it
was not an original design feature of the boat.
vinegar joe
(btw...just purchased a "gale sail" and played around
with it for the first time last night.  i think i'm
going to like it....seems like an good compromise
versus installing a removeable forestay.)

--- Scott <tristan at one.net> wrote:
> 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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> 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
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> smorgasbord of small
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  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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