This page describes:
- How I added a tiller control line.
It is something I learned about from someone else on the C22 email list. I made it myself. It is easy to do if you have lifelines and a stern rail. I simply attach a pulley to the bottom of each of the two forward legs of the stern pulpit and a pulley to the top of each of the two forward legs of the stern pulpit, attached a fairlead to the top of each of the two aft stanchions, attached a pulley to the top of each of the two forward stanchions and attached a pulley to the bottom of each of the two aft legs of the bow pulpit. The line is 1/4" double braid. Tie or splice a small loop in one end and put the loop onto the tiller. Then run the other end of the line through the pulley at the bottom of one stern pulpit leg, up through the pulley at the top of that stern pulpit leg, forward through the stanchion fairlead, forward through the stanchion pulley, forward through one of the bow pulpit pulleys then across to the other one and back to the tiller via the pulleys and fairlead on the other side of the boat. Run the line through the loop on the tiller and secure it back on itself with a taughtline hitch or two half hitches. Then the tension on the line can be regulated by slipping the hitch to loosen or tighten it. You will want it tighter as the wind picks up. The line runs through four pulleys and one fairlead on each side of the boat for a total of eight pulleys and two fairleads. There is an extra fairlead on each side above the bottom pulley on the stern pulpit. This extra fairlead is used for my traveler control line but it acts as an anchor point for the bottom pulley for the tiller control line.
Bear in mind that whenever you secure the tiller you also make it harder to get back to the boat IF you go overboard without anyone else onboard. The boat will just keep sailing away. It may eventually start turning, but odds are that it will still be a long ways away. Don't fall off with the tiller secured!
- Where I purchased the materials necessary.
I bought line from SailNet and I got the pulleys (Ronstan Series 20 RF20100) and fairleads from West Marine.
- Here is a sketch of this set-up.
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