Making Your Tiller Connections Removable
By Kim Miller
Let's all get into that old argument about trailering with your rudders
on or off the boat. My main trouble with taking the rudders off was that
the tiller arms and the tiller crossbar were too well attached to each
other. I did not want to have to undo the tiller connectors each time,
not with all those half-balls, bolts and springs. So I just drilled out
the pop rivets which fasten the connectors into the tiller arms and replaced
the rivets with a quarter inch toggle pin. After a season of racing and
a five week sailing holiday in blustery conditions, they have not shown
any attempt to come apart by themselves when sailing.
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