NE Sailboat wrote:
Yo .. Captain Roger .. on my Bristol 32, my self steering gear is a Bungy
Cord.

The link .. http://www.jsward.com/steering/index.shtml

This goes back to 1974. The author, apparently wrote a book that shows how
to set this up..

And before the Windvane, this method was used by some for very long
passages.

For the life of me, the article just doesn't make sense to me. I read it
five times.

Dumb I guess.

PS .. the B32 , will be nearby this coming season ,,, maybe.. depends of
crew.


I tried this time after time on my Westsail 32 with no good results
despite reading in several places that it should work. I am very
skeptical that 'many long passages' were made this way aside from short
times off the tiller. The implication that you can leave the helm for
days while this arrangement works wasn't proved by my experiments.

-paul