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John J.
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Initially Posted - 04/07/2005 :  12:46:01  Show Profile
I know many of you use a bungee cord wrapped a couple of times aound the tiller and hooked to the two locker hasps for a makeshift tiller tamer. What length should I look for? ( and I promised my fiance there would never be any lashings on this boat ).
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Lightnup
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Response Posted - 04/07/2005 :  15:17:45  Show Profile
Here's a couple of discussions on the subject

[url="http://www.catalina25-250.org/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=8733&SearchTerms=tiller,"]Tiller lashing thread[/url]
[url="http://www.catalina25-250.org/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=6094&SearchTerms=tiller"]Tiller Lashing - Part II[/url]

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77Gypsy
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Response Posted - 04/08/2005 :  20:58:20  Show Profile
i bought the $25.00 tiller tamer. it works great. i sailed on april 6th solo for about 6 hours and maybe held the tiller for 1 hour, every once and a while i would give it a little adjustment and it was fine.

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John J.
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Response Posted - 04/09/2005 :  07:04:21  Show Profile
Steve, I bought the tiller tamer myself, (last year), and never got around to mounting it. Then after reading about the bungee, i thought I might like that better. I sail in a small inland lake, and will only use it while I'm raising sails etc. I still might mount the TT.
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Lightnup
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Response Posted - 04/09/2005 :  23:18:26  Show Profile
I bought and installed the Tiller Tamer today and hope to give it a tryout tomorrow. I'm using the two stern pulpit stanchions rather than installing more cleats. Hated to drill holes in the beautiful tiller but a singlehander's gotta do what a singlehander's gotta do....

Also had to do some creative "stretching" of the tiller cover to fit with the Tiller Tamer installed.

Steve
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Response Posted - 04/10/2005 :  07:49:04  Show Profile
Steve, I bought two cleats that mount to the two rear stanchions with hose clamps. This works much better if you want to disconnect the "tamer". I have used the Tiller Tamer for three years now and it works the nuts. C250 WB "Splash" 7 May in the Great Sacandaga Lake
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Response Posted - 04/10/2005 :  09:57:56  Show Profile
Bear wrote:<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">two cleats that mount to the two rear stanchions with hose clamps.<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote">That makes sense, why didn't I think of that?

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