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just want to add to the steering thing...when traveling across the gulf of
alaska in '54', on a 60ft seiner, headed for the alutians, we had a
following swell (15/18 ft) all the way across...i was the kid, so i got to
steer a lot!(cause i could) having grown up on a 40ft troller in se alaska,
i already knew how...the other problem is steering by compass...i found that
even one that is over 12" in diameter, is more than difficult in a large
swell...if the boat gets even the thickness of a pencil line off, it`s a
long ways off course!...a funny one on me...we were moving to wragell,
alaska in abt '45' (that`s 1945) and we were headed north up the strait of
georgia, (between vancooover islnd, and the mainland) with the water flat
like a mill pond, and i was steering on the flying bridge, my dad came up
after abt an hr, and asked if i knew that the shortest distance between two
points was a straight line!! not sure what i answered, but he then told me
to look behind us...looked like a long snake! the point i`m making, is that
most people tend to oversteer in the beginning, and also tend to turn the
wheel to much, and don`t counter when the boat comes back...my wife is from
germany, and had never seen a boat...now after almost 30 yrs, i trust her
completely...does`nt hit islands/logs...tells me to look at the straight
line behind too...after my nap!...c
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