On 3/23/2015 9:35 AM, Dave Scobie wrote: Hi Dave, You say, " the drawback to a longer tiller is it can get in the way if you sail with crew. That is true, so the ideal solution to the single-handing or sailing with crew problem is to have a regular length tiller, but with some "insert-able", or a fold over-on-itself extender so you can have it both ways: shorter when you have others on board; or longer when sailing by yourself. Connie
John Owens, of JOWoodworks, makes a longer tiller for the M15.
I always sat just at the cockpit-to-cabin bulkhead when sailing my M15 and never had problem using a tiller extension on a 'standard length' M15 tiller.
the drawback to a longer tiller is it can get in the way if you sail with crew ... making it difficult to come about and having enough space foward of the tiller for multiple people to switch cockpit sides.