[Public-List] Sheet to wheel steering and Alado furling

[Gordon Laco]

Good morning Pete -

Letcher goes into steering by sheeting to tiller... and inserting a  
wheel is not really a different topic.   What people did in the past  
is fasten a drum to the wheel for the lines to exert torque on instead  
of a straight pull one way or the other on the tiller.   (the old  
Autohelm 300 drum is nice and tidy)  and lead the sheets to it.   One  
thing to bear in mind is that in the days when self steering by  
sheeting to the helm was used, it was considered acceptable because  
nothing else was available.   Even in well balanced boats it takes  
hours to tweek the steering to the point where the boat will steer  
itself this way... if the sea or wind or course change you have to  
start all over again.   In addition, even a sweet steering boat that  
can be persuaded to steer herself this way will do it better on some  
points of sail, and not so well or not all on others.

Steering by sheeting to the tiller is a lot of work with marginal  
results as the best  possible outcome.... and only slightly less work  
and a lot less fun than steering by hand.

Sorry to be so pessimistic!  This is a topic I have done a fair bit of  
digging into.

Gord #426 SURPRISE




On 28-Sep-09, at 4:12 AM, Peter Amos wrote:

>
> I can find no reference on the internet or in Letchers book on Self  
> Steering to steering by sheet to wheel.Does anyone know where I can  
> get information.There was one brief reference in the 2002 archives  
> but I would like to go into it more deeply.
> Also does anyone have experience of the Alado furling system
> Pete ex  Tait Tait 478
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