Re: Self steering for small craft
I have had a bit of fun recently playing around with sheet to tiller self steering. Explained well in a book by Lee Woas ' Self Steering Without a Windvane'.
Basically you set a small jib on the weather side of the foredeck and lead the sheet along the windward side via a few turning blocks and attach it to the tiller. The sail is set backed and the harder it blows the more it takes the tiller to windward to try to bear away.
Works well on my long keeled gaffer.
Lots of fun for a fiver - cost of an old dinghy jib at a boat jumble.
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