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?