"Jeff" wrote in message ...
When I returned from my recent cruise there was a boat in my slip - a very
nice Niagara 35. I helped the marina manager move it to another location
and he explained that it had been purchased by a friend of another tenant,
and it was just staying for a few days.

Then he mentioned that it had one very odd characteristic: the steering
worked in reverse! I said I had never heard of that in a boat made in the
last 50 years, and we agreed that this must have been the result of some
jury rig or half-assed repair. The wheel looked like the original
installation, and I'm sure that Hinterhoeller would not have taken a short
cut even though the rudder post being a foot aft of the wheel would have
made things tight.

Has anyone heard of such a rig? Have there been any production boats
where the steering is reversed? Didn't this fall from favor before WWII?


I sailed on a Landfall ( later Vagabond ) 39 by Ron Amy that had that as an
option. It steered normally until you had following seas and then you
flipped a valve and it reversed to hydraulics to the steering servo.

Leanne