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Jeffrey,
I am truly intrigued by the responsiveness of your steering system and will give it a try for my 2nd boat I will build this year.
I am still wondering what would be the best way to put the wires from front to back. From an pure optic perspective I would have a tendency to have the wire inside the cockpit, but I also like the way you put the wire going outside and at the back into the cockpit again. Do you have recognized any practical aspects that would suggest to go with one or the other option?
Thank you!
Markus
Markus, you asked why I mounted the cable system for my steering outside of the cockpit, rather than inside. There were probably a few reasons for that. One is that I saw this set up on Jack Pettigrew’s boat, and he was happy with it, so I figured that if it was good enough for Jack, that it would be good enough for me. Secondly, I thought that there was a chance of my interfering with the cables if mounted on the inside of the cockpit. And since you really need to keep your hands inside the boat while racing, though many of us do not (which has resulted in the past in a partially lost finger!), mounting the cables outside would work best. Lastly, I bought a set of these really nifty coaming pulleys from Brown Tool and Machine to utiize. They are fairly chunky, and in the case of a flip or accident, bashing my ribs against the pulleys did not seem like a very appealing idea!
Thank you, Jeffrey! Very helpful context. Sounds like quite a set of reasons to go for the outside-version. So outside it shall be. 😎
Thank you!
markus
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