[Rhodes22-list] Rose, the nautical engineer

[ed kroposki]

Rose, 
	A screwdriver may be all that you need to remove the retaining bolt.
However, the nut is recessed and you might need a nut driver to hold the
bolt. You routinely take it off to paint the tiller.  BTW, get a tiller
cover so that you do not have to paint as often.
	In regards to keeping a small boat functioning, keep a small toolbox
on the boat.  
	Hopefully, you have read "Sailing Small" with a chapter by your
fellow Chesapeake Rhodie, Mary Lou.  A small sail boater wrote each chapter,
and some speak to technical challenges that you might expect to encounter.
	I saw Stan's reply.  You should have had the Gorilla fix the
situation.  I always say, he who messes up, cleans up.  

Ed K
Greenville, SC, USA
Addendum:  I know where Annapolis is.  I know where Baltimore is. I know
where the Bay Bridge and Tunnels are.  Nevertheless, I still have no clue
where you are.  Let me put it this way, Greenville is half way between
Atlanta and Charlotte.  In the western corner of South Carolina: Elevation
above sea level: 1,000 feet, at the base of the Blue Ridge Escarpment, just
of Interstate Highway 85, and so on.

Ed K
Greenville, SC, USA

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Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Tiller Extension stuck 

Ed,

Northern Neck, Northumberland County Virginia.  I live on just off the Great

Wicomico river on Warehouse creek which is about two miles from the
Chesapeake 
Bay and the closest town is Reedville.  We get quite a few sailboats here 
during bad weather as it a 'safe harbour'.

My boyfriend tried all the elbow grease he could muster and it still didn't 
work, AND, he is a pretty strong fellow.

I can work a screw driver (I put in my kitchen cabinet hardware, drapes, 
blinds, installed my ceiling fan, built a workbench in my garage, installed
gutter 
guards, landscaped my yard, I change the oil on my car & tractor regularly 
and fix anything else that goes up around here).  

The pic looks like what I have.  So I just take off  the black cap on the 
under side of the tiller where the extension is mounted and I'll be able to 
unscrew the extention handle? (Did I just heard a Duh from some fellow
rhodies?)  I 
Wouldn't dare to use it on Stan....he's been way to good to me..

Rose
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