Ty: Anyone here successfully rigged sheet-to-tiller steerin

[Tod Mills]

I've recently started experimenting with sheet-to-tiller self steering (w/ surgical tubing for elastic) and was wondering if anyone here had come up with any successful arrangements for a Ty?

Thanks,

Tod Mills



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[Paul Danicic]

Todd,

This is something that has been eluding me for two or three seasons, though I haven't really put a dogged attempt in to get it yet. Next year it is my goal, just for the hell of it of course as I love steering the Typhoon.

John Letcher, in his book, "self-Steering for Sailing Craft" reckons we can do it. The simplest system looks to be the jib sheet crossing to the weather side of the cockpit and to the tiller with the surgical tubing on the leeward side. I think this would take two blocks mounted on the comings somehow and a lot of trial and error. I have tried crude versions of this without much luck, but have stopped short of drilling any holes. There are other arrangements in that book which use a smaller line bent to the main sheet middle section, to the weather coming, through a block and to the tiller with tubing on the leeward side, which might work with the Ty's simple main sheet system.

Good luck and if you ever find something that works, post it here!

Paul Danicic
HORNET #1178
MPLS MN



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[chris mullins]

todd:i never tried it,but i'm going to.i found a book on the subject,"self steering without a windvane"by lee woas,seven seas press,dist.by simon and schuster,which makes a very convincing case.all of his pictures are cape dorys,mostly 27s and 28s,but a few of the typhoon.the gist of it is,you rig a spare halyard inside the jib snd fly the storm jib sheeted to windward and connect that to the tiller.you sheet the jib to leeward as usual,so you're flying three sails.for downwind it's the same thing,but you pole the storm jib foreward.this is a very good book,anyone with a cape dory would want to see it.all the best,chris: Todd,

This is something that has been eluding me for two or three seasons, though I haven't really put a dogged attempt in to get it yet. Next year it is my goal, just for the hell of it of course as I love steering the Typhoon.

John Letcher, in his book, "self-Steering for Sailing Craft" reckons we can do it. The simplest system looks to be the jib sheet crossing to the weather side of the cockpit and to the tiller with the surgical tubing on the leeward side. I think this would take two blocks mounted on the comings somehow and a lot of trial and error. I have tried crude versions of this without much luck, but have stopped short of drilling any holes. There are other arrangements in that book which use a smaller line bent to the main sheet middle section, to the weather coming, through a block and to the tiller with tubing on the leeward side, which might work with the Ty's simple main sheet system.

Good luck and if you ever find something that works, post it here!

Paul Danicic
HORNET #1178
MPLS MN

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