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I have wheel steering and it has a large square head to on the deck for emergency steering. As I turn the wheel it turns so I know it works. What I don't seem to have is a tiller/handle/thingy to use in the emergency. I suppose I could keep a long pipe wrench with me, but that just seems silly. Any idea what this is called, so I can find one on e-bay or somewhere?Horace Henderson
76 MKIII - Newport RI
I believe it's called an emergency tiller. You might be able to get one from Edson or whoever made your wheel steering.
I have one but it's on the boat and covered up for the winter. It looks like a large closed end wrench that just slips over the square "bolt". If I were to replace it I think I would go to a tool dealer and ask for a square socket to match the head of the rudder and get a one inch breaker bar ( not a ratchet wrench ) to fit it. Then a three foot metal tube to fit over the breaker bar.
JT
ask Lief Ericson, he had one
Yes, well, with a wheel system that relied on wooden sheaves and control lines braided from oxhide or the flaxen hair of captured and ravished lovelies, and all of it operated by guys so strong that they could step a 50-foot wooden mast with one hand while pillaging an English village with the other, Lief would want an emergency tiller in case his solid-narwhal-horn binnacle was ripped out of the deck by a little friendly horseplay.
David Weatherston
Towser, Toronto
C&C 27 Mk IV
David Weatherston
Towser, Toronto
C&C 27 Mk IV
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Good thinking. I have been on a boat where the cable system failed (This will always happen at the worst possible time), and fortunately we had an emergency tiller on the boat. Unfortunately, it took a while to get the wheel off so we could use it. I have seen emergency tillers of welded up pipe with a big "U" in them to go around the wheel. You can also have it come off at an angle - even up to 90 degrees to clear the wheel. You may want to think of an appropriately shaped "cheater pipe" to fit over the socket breaker bar or just have the appropriate size socket welded to a piece of pipe. It ain't rocket science - but any mechanical system can fail. The large square head is the top of the rudder post.
Warren Smith
Serendipity
Galveston Bay, Texas
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