steffenme1
New Member
The tiller that came with my Sunfish was covered in duct tape and (for some reason) was 4 inches short, so I whipped up a new one. After learning in this thread: http://sailingforums.com/threads/tiller-material.29272/ That anything made by me was illegal I figured I should at least make a nice one.
The old one, and a mahogany cut-off I had laying around:
I wasn't sure how the extension was 'supposed' to mount to the tiller, so I used 2 threaded stainless inserts:
The piece was actually a bit of a pain to cut because I left the cheeks on the tiller where the extension mounts, but it finished up fine, here is is drying/dried:
And finally stuck on the boat:
Had a chance to take it out a few times since then and it works just fine, not that a tapered stick is a very difficult piece of hardware to fashion.
The old one, and a mahogany cut-off I had laying around:
I wasn't sure how the extension was 'supposed' to mount to the tiller, so I used 2 threaded stainless inserts:
The piece was actually a bit of a pain to cut because I left the cheeks on the tiller where the extension mounts, but it finished up fine, here is is drying/dried:
And finally stuck on the boat:
Had a chance to take it out a few times since then and it works just fine, not that a tapered stick is a very difficult piece of hardware to fashion.