Lashing your tiller - Oday 23

[Indysailor]

Looking for innovative and simple ideas for holding my tiller in place while docked.
Right now, I tie mine to the stern rail braces on the combings, and hold it up off the transom by continuing that line to the stern rail, amidships. It's a little tedious, but effective.

 

[Captnkev25]

On my boat I took a piece of line and secured it to my vertical pushpit rail. I made it long enough to go about 3/4 of the way across the cockpit and tied a bowline in the free end. I center the tiller and wrap the line around 3 times, then secure it with a bungee hooked into the bowline and then to my pushpit. Works great and it's nice and cheap I leave the line connected all the time and just stow the bungee. Makes a good impromptu tiller tamer as well.




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Bungee secured

 

[taichi]

tiller

Do you have a back stay or topping lift? bring a bunge cord down to the tiller from there also gets it up out of the way when your just sittin iun the cockpit - that's how I've been doing it on three diff tiller boats for close to 20 years - have fun!

 

[Joe11688]

Looking for innovative and simple ideas for holding my tiller in place while docked.
Right now, I tie mine to the stern rail braces on the combings, and hold it up off the transom by continuing that line to the stern rail, amidships. It's a little tedious, but effective.

I tie my tiller off very similar to Captnkev25, only I use two 5/16" braid ropes with a Bowline tied on one end of each rope. I run the loops of each of the two ropes under the stern cleats and over the horns, center the tiller, and tie clove hitches around the tiller and half hitches to lock it in.
I have a piece of leather sewn around the tiller as a chafe guard to protect the wood from the ropes. Also, there is a metal peg in my tiller for my autopilot and the ropes are tied in front of this peg to prevent slippage. I have a tip up rudder and I always leave my blade in the tipped up position when my boat is moored.

 

[Indysailor]

Very helpful- thanks all!

 

[Indysailor]

Update- I went the Captkev route.
I add a small bungee from the triangle bracket around the tiller to keep it off the transom.

Also used it for single handling and found it to work quite well.

 

[Joe11688]

Update- I went the Captkev route.
I add a small bungee from the triangle bracket around the tiller to keep it off the transom.

Also used it for single handling and found it to work quite well.

Hey, that works!
The reason why I tie my tiller off good and tight with ropes is because I have a tip up rudder blade that can easily get hit by my outboard prop when the blade is in the up position. There are times when I need to keep my blade up and use my outboard to get too and from my mooring because of the tides. Whereas you have a regular rudder, you could get away with a tiller tender or anything you can devise.

 

[Technodad]

I use a line going from one rear cleat, through a Victory tiller clamp to the other cleat.
Works like a dream for locking the tiller while single handing and locking the tiller at the dock.

I used to have a Tiller Tamer but the Victory is so much better (cam operated and all stainless steel), no constant twisting and screwing, just flip it down and it locks.

 

[Joe11688]

That's pretty neat! I like that.

 

[estopa]

I use a tiller tamer -

 

[Joe11688]

I use a tiller tamer -

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[tigereye37]

I went with the "tiller clutch" on my oday 25 and i love it so far! Check out the link or google it: http://wavefrontmarine.com/

 

[kpgraci]

Yup. Tiller Tamer. Used to lock tiller at dock and during sailing to add damping in rough conditions.

 

[ruidh]

You can get these cam clamps from Rockler, replace the screw under the knob with a smaller one and have a quick release tiller tamer.

http://www.rockler.com/product.cfm?page=10602&filter=cam