"Roger Long" wrote in
:

It's a perfect lesson of the test-everything-and-assume-nothing
principle.



Roger, have you ever had her emergency tiller hooked up and cruised
around with it?

Lionheart, an Amel Sharki 41 ketch, has a hole in the aft cabin overhead
and a beautifully-made mahogany tiller attachment to the rudder post that
fits through that hole so you can steer her from standing on the aft
cabin with the equally-beautifully-made mahogany tiller handle.

You never know when her triple redundant electromechanical B&G Pilot or
massively cabled steering wheel are going to fail....(c;

"Real Sailors", of course, will leave the tiller handle in place and just
remove the wheel and autopilot....(c;