Topic: attaching a tiller pilot to tiller
Hi all,
Ok, I broke down and bought a used tiller pilot (though still determined to master sheet-to-tiller steering!). Question is, how does one attach the steering arm (push/pull thingy) to the ship's tiller? Does one need the bent metal tang, or can it be attached by mounting the pin upside down directly on the underside of the tiller? What are folks out there doing? Pondering creating a slide-on bracket of some sort with the pin stuck to it - something that puts the load (hopefully light) onto the full thickness of the tiller.
Using this site reminds me of the old B.C. comic strip - I feel like I'm chiselling a question on a stone tablet and setting it in the sea and letting it "swim" away into the sunset, then waiting to see what answer comes back the next day.