Hi Connie,
Thank you for you reply to my question re self steering. When I first bought
my M15 I wanted to put an Auto helm 1000 tiller auto pilot on it with 2
motorcycle batteries with a switch to select one or the other battery or both
batteries at the same time. I thought I would keep the batteries charged with
a solar panel on the cabin top. When I was told it wouldn't work I didn't look
into it any further. I'm still not sure how large of a solar panel I would
have needed to charge the batteries.
Jerry Montgomery suggest I use surgical tubing looped to the tiller which I had
planned on doing but never did. I found a place that sold the surgical tubing
in another city but was never able to get there when they were open. At that
time I worked many hours and had little time to use the boat.
Now my thinking is to use both a line and surgical tubing and also jib sheet to
tiller. The farthest I've sailed in one day was 34 NM. Most of my sailing
will port to port. I use a Garmin GPS 48. Nothing fancy but it gets the job
done and is quite simple to use. Simple is what I need!
Thanks again for your help. Sorry I didn't answer you sooner. I'm trying to
get over the flu right now.
Fair winds
Bud
M15 #500
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