In article , "Grumman581"
writes:

I find
myself having to move the wheel from one side to the other quite often to
get it to track a relatively straight line at idle speeds like when you're
lining it up to load it on a trailer

I have experienced that with my outboard. There was a long thread about that
last year--the conclusion was that that was not unusual. The Christina River
in Wilmington, Del, is no wake throughout the city--a couple of miles, I would
guess. At no wake, to maintain a straight course, I have to adjust the course
every 30 or 40 feet. I'm talking about moving the wheel no more than an inch
or two. I tell myself that it's because I'm on an unstable platform and, at
slow speeds, cannot override the instability of that platform.

Don't know if it's true, but that's what I tell myself.

Frank Bell