[Alberg30] Wheel Advantages

[George Dinwiddie]

Thanks to Bob Johns, you'll find it at 
http://www.alberg30.org/maintenance/Steering/ArticulatedTiller/

Robert Kirk wrote:
> George... Would you put a sketch or pix of that rig up on the web site?  
> I need to raise the tiller for the autopilot, too, and so far my 
> solution is just to lash it up with twine; not elegant looking.
> 
> Bob Kirk
> Isobar #181
> 
> 
> 
> At 09:37 AM 4/29/03 -0400, George Dinwiddie wrote:
> 
>> I've heard of people making a folding tiller (just past the attachment 
>> point for the autopilot) but I don't know the details.
>>
>> I made a small bronze plate with a hole that fits the nubbin on the 
>> tiller head.  This then holds the tiller up at an angle which allows 
>> it to clear the knees of the people sitting in the forward half of the 
>> cockpit.  It also puts it at the right height for my autopilot without 
>> the need for any brackets on the tiller.
> 

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