Following a windy weekend at West Oxfordshire my tiller is now at the bottom of the lake!
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Rather against the odds, plan A is to find and retrieve it, and I now know that people don't trust the rudder rope to keep the components together and add various clips and pins.
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So what of plan B: my boat is from Anglo Marine in 1987 and the tiller was a u-section metal one that slid on to the rudder. Who made it? I fear it's obsolete and Ian Porter's website suggests ¡°expensive special order¡±. Is there any hope of replacing it at reasonable cost?
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The other choice will be to modify the assembly to suit: take the slider fitting off the top of the rudder and replace with capping socket to take a conventional tubular tiller. Has anybody done this?
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Advice gratefully received.
Mike Bellew
W676
