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Although I personally prefer a tiller for steering I have sailed on
several larger vessels multihulls with hydraulic steering and
find that they are there because the quadrant and cable system was not
practical. You do have to get use to it if you have not used it before.
As for cost and maintinance luckily I am not the vessel's owner :-).
kp
On
Fri, 6 Aug 1999, Rufus Laggren wrote:
> Dave Benjamin wrote:
> ...
>
> > that Denis refers to is a more traditional windvane. Personally I would
> > probably convert over to conventional cable steering or that Whitlock system
> > rather than suffer with hydraulic steering. Since we have mixed company on
> > this lailing list I can't make the analogy between hydraulic steering and
>
> Dave, I don't have any personal knowledge of hydraulics as applied to small
> boat steering. However, according to what I've read about boat systems in
> general in the last several years, I understand hydraulics to be a very
>........ and parts and expertise are readily available anywhere you find
industry,
> agriculture, or heavy construction.
>
>
> Rufus
>
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