Hi Connie, Do you remember how much longer than stock you added to the tiller? Or how long the entire new tiller was? sal In a message dated 10/16/2011 10:44:43 A.M. Mountain Daylight Time, chbenneck@sbcglobal.net writes: On 16-Oct-11 12:25 PM, mrh219@yahoo.com wrote: Hi Mike, When we still owned our M15 #400 LEPPO, I sailed mostly by myself. I wanted a tiller extension so that I could sit as far forward in the cockpit as possible to keep the transom from dragging through the water and slowing me down. My first attempt was to use a Forespar adjustable length tiller extender. It worked, but the working angle between the tiller and the tiller extension was wrong. When I sat as far forward as I could, the angle between the Forespar tiller extension and the M15 tiller was about 120 degrees. If you got a sudden gust of wind and needed an instant tiller correction, the 120 angle didn't give you what you needed; i.e., a 90 degree relationship between tiller and tiller extension. To solve that problem I built a new, much longer than stock, tiller and reinstalled the Forespar extension. Now the geometry was correct.
From my forward seating position I now had a 90 degree push-pull relationship between the tiller extension and the tiller.
It worked great. Connie
Group, this is off-topic, but my boat is under shrink wrap for the winter and it's on to jobs I have been putting off. I epoxied an arm on a wooden chair crooked. I understand that heat will soften up the epoxy. Can I soften the epoxy with a heat gun, straighten the arm, and let it cool and harden, or once it has been heated, is the epoxy shot? Thinking about spring, I am looking at tiller extenders. Any recommendations for m-15? Mike m-15 Anne Bonny (all tucked in for a long winters nap) _______________________________________________ http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/montgomery_boats
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