Having owned sailboats all my adult life , the tiller idea is appealing. 2 years ago I sold my last boat, a 60 year old restored (by me) 34 footer; it had a curved laminated wooden tiller of robust proportions and I miss it dearly.
After my experience of today any alternative looks good - in the course of installing my new wheel I found that JEGS supplied me with the wrong mounting kit! After being on hold for over an hour I finally got a tech on the phone who identified the proper hardware kit and agreed to an exchange–- but said that the item is back ordered and it will be LATE APRIL before I can get it!
Crappity- crap crap crap - I planned to be out of the shed and driving by then! I’ll probably have to suffer the humiliation of temporarily re-mountain the frankenwheel before then so I can push the truck around to allow for moving boats.
Not a good day in the boat shed.
