Steering Pedestal Problems

[Patrick Seminaris]

I have a 1986 Hunter 34'. It has the Merriman steering pedestal. I recently had a mechanic over to change a throttle cable and he broke the collor on the pedestal where the gear shifter / throttle attach. Merriman has gone out of business. Does anybody have this part for this pedestal or know of where I could get it? I really could use some help before I am forced to replace the whole pedestal.

 

[Sam Lust]

Check the archives

There have been several discussions about this, and at least one current source was given.

 

[Steve Dion]

Check this out.

http://archive.sailboatowners.com/archive/archiverview.tpl?rid=2001248062807.21&forumabr=ms&fno=4&_ptitle=ptitle%20rtitle&_psamp=psamp&&model=none&forum=none&andor=wo&keyword=Y/S%20Merriman&pr=p,r&ssite=HOW&srt=pdate&start=100&max=20You may be able to source your part from this guy.

 

[Steve Zito]

Alternative solution

I am not sure what exactly the broken part looks like, but I have had an obsolete broken part, a gear, in an old piece of office equipment that I had rebuilt by the shop class at a local trade school. In other words, its amazing what a local shop can build.Its another possible alternative.