I helped a friend last year when a pontoon mooring line got under his Contessa 26 tiller in a blow and snapped it off. He took the remains to a local timber merchant, they cut a new piece to roughly the right shape. 2 hours fiddling and fettling by us with a power planer and sander, followed by two coats of varnish and the next morning we went sailing Well chuffed with the results too..........
-------------------- I came into this world with nothing..........so far I've managed to hang on to most of it