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Blog EntryMar 28, '04 6:42 PM
by Jesper for everyone
I Just saw in BÅDNYT (a Danish yacht Magazine) a picture of a Etap 34 which has a vertical tiller. A tiller that stands up when in use, and tilts to each side, as opposed to a horisontal tiller that swings to each side.
 
This of course is also a solution to the problem of the Ballad tiller sweeping almost the entire cockpit when tacking, and just taking up too much room, and beeing in the way of the person using the sheetwinch, or vice versa.
 
A vertical tiller convertion should be a lot easier to make since you need not go below the buttom of the cockpit with wires and quadrants, you can just install it on top of the cockpit bottom, and link it to a short tiller replacement.
 
Does anyone have any comments, or experiences on this?????
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jespermilling wrote on Mar 28, '04
I found a picture of the Etap solution. As far as I know from the article in BÃ¥dnyt, the boat turns to the same side the tiller is turned, like wit a wheel. I probably wouldn't mind if it was the other way around if that is easier to make. Note that a person can stand behind it, like behind a wheel, but also in front of it like wit a horisontal tiller.
 
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msn-patentnick1 wrote on Jul 1, '04
I have no new ideas to offer on how to convert the tiller except that I probably
wouldn't do it.  Yes, there're times that I've found the tiller to be too long and,
at one point, I thought of taking a saw to it. Thank goodness I didn't. A few weeks later, I found myself in a force 7 (gusting 8) in a very choppy sea.  Thanks to the long
tiller I could tuck myself forward, under the protection of the sprayhood while still
being able to steer the boat, admitedly with a bit of effort. I also appreciate the extra
leverage of the long tiller when going astern.  The thought of the tiller slipping out of hand and the forward part of the rudder banging against the skeg is an ugly one.
 
Anyway, just some food for thought.
 
Nicholas Koligiannis (patentnick1)
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msn-jc0tton wrote on Jul 2, '04

Yeah, I‘ve had the same thoughts. Its nice to have the leverage and also to be to be able to snuggle under the spray dodger in hairy conditions. Motoring under autohelm the last 1/3 of the tiller is a waste of space. I haven’t seen it anywhere but I have wondered if were possible to put a hinge on the tiller so that part of it folds away when the full length was not required.

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