Bill Goldsmith wrote:I don't think so. Calling the risk of a line catching on the tiller fitting a design flaw is like calling the brake pedal of a car flawed when that Coke bottle rolls behind it. Neatness counts.Angela and Tom wrote:Hi Carl,
I know this smacks of blasphemy, but is this a CD design flaw??
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I think you're absolutely right (no question, neatness is paramount on a sailboat!), but a Coke bottle isn't integral to driving a car.
I've never really sailed on any other "big" boat but our Cape Dory and haven't seen how other tillers are engineered. It seems like the way the hinge(?) on the tiller resolves begs for sheets to catch and could be a cleaner design. Is this typical?
Fortunately, there are very few bugaboos on our wonderful boats and this doesn't make me love our boat any less!
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