Hi Connie, Thanks for sharing your experience with the lock box. I will not be using the extension in the way you described, just as a short-handed way of controlling the boat. Everything is a trade-off: not having to rig another line each time I put the boat in saves time and trouble but means opening a hole in the boat and therefore creating a potential leak. Sigh...
Thanks again, George M15 #385 On 5/28/04 2:44 PM, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi George, > > I too have a Forespar Tiller Extension and the lock box in the side wall > of the cockpit. > > I thought it would be ideal for holding course when single handing: > which it does very nicely..........and for holding the tiller in a fixed > position when at the marina dock. > > This latter use was a total failure. > > The wash of outboard powered water ski boats; and PWC put such a strain > on the rudder / tiller that it split the tiller allowing the screws > holding the small Forespar fitting in the tiller to fall out - and the > Forespar Tiller Extension was just hanging in the breeze the next time I > got to the boat. > > Apparently waves roll the boat so severely that something has to give in > the rigid Forespar / tiller / rudder > system, and the weakest link was the Forespar tiller fitting itself - > held in placed with two small 1/2 inch screws...... > > So, back to the drawing board. > > Now I just use the Forespar Tiller Extension as an autopilot when raising > or lowering sail, or to go below to get a sweater or a beer. > > At the dock, I now fasten the tiller with bungee cords. They can move; > but they keep the tiller / rudder from moving too much. > > Connie > M15 #400 LEPPO > > _______________________________________________ > http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/montgomery_boats _______________________________________________ http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/montgomery_boats
