Emergency Steering?

[bubba]

I wonder if that method will work on my 70 and my neighbors 90 hp motors? Or they too big? How many days have you sailed or motored that way ? Where I go it could be 50 or 100 miles back to the trailor, what then?

[Kelly Hanson East]

It motored very well at 6 kts, I have not sailed like this. I dont think it would be fun tacking a lot like this. No reason to think you couldnt help lik ethis indefinitely.

[ronacarme]

For emergency steering on my X, I split and clamped a plastic lawn sprinkler system"T' on the center of the stock rudder connecting tube.
Upon disconnectig the wheel controlled, extensible, steering plunger from the rudder connecting tube, a length of plastic pipe (the emergency tiller)inserts removably in the center hole of the "T" and extends under the helmseat fwd toward the steering console. Moving the pipe's front end sideways steers the rudders and motor.
Cheap, but probably not the best solution, in that the plastic pipe flexes a bit and a small sideways movement of the pipe causes a relatively large steering correction, so steering tends to be rather imprecise.
Also, I don't know if the M steering system's rudder connecting tube is accessible enuf to permit this type of solution.
Ron

[Tahoe Jack]

Since the mod search is apparently still down, I would be happy to send a pdf version of our tiller mod to anyone interested. Just need your real email address via PM so I can do the attachment. Jack