[Rhodes22-list] Tiller/motor connection pics?

[Joe Camp]

Hi Oliver:
     Yours is a universal problem.  Maneuvering in tight quarters with a sailboat & OB motor is pretty tough. You can hit Stan up for one of his Tiller/Motor connections.  But, each boat and motor must be custom fit at GB in Edenton.  The problem (as I analyzed it) was the need to manage the tiller and motor's gears from the same perch in the cockpit.  Since one MUST be moving very slowly in docking procedures, shifting was the real problem.
     I built a solution by getting a sturdy metal rod and a flat piece of metal about ten or so inches long.  This flat piece, I screwed to shift lever, so it stuck up, and made the gears easier to feel.  To the top the flat piece, I attached the rod by whatever means seemed strongest.  Before installation, I heated and bent the rod into a handle that made it easy to, well, "handle". This is long enough to reach just over the transom. So, sitting on the gunwale, and using my tiller extension stick I am able to control my slow (key word: "slow") approach by using the shifter to manage any approach to a dock or slip. Slowly forward and using reverse to make any maneuvers easier to manage. Remember "slow".  Boats have no brakes, and you need to think ahead several steps and consider wind, currents, tides and other boats. 

     The rig is ugly, but it is also supremely functional.  Sorry, no pics.  I always intend take some, but never seem to actually do it. My phone is not a camera; in makes calls.  Good luck.
Joe Camp
s/v John Dawson
Bohemia River, MD


 
      From: Olivier Hecht <ohecht at earthlink.net>
 To: rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org 
 Sent: Monday, July 18, 2016 5:45 AM
 Subject: [Rhodes22-list] Tiller/motor connection pics?
   
Hello. Sailing Fretless is great but any docking or other slow speed maneuvers under power, especially in reverse, is proving terribly ineffective. 

I reached out to Stan but I guess the installation involves some custom work and I'd like to get a solution before I have a chance to let him have the boat for a while. 

Does anyone have some good close up pictures of the mechanism and/or part numbers?  Or other solutions that have worked?  The motor is a Yamaha 8hp 4-stoke in case that matters. 

Thanks in advance,

Olivier
s/v Fretless
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