David,
The big question, IMHO, is why is the steering loose now when it wasn’t
before. Chances are your cable is frayed and you should replace it ASAP.
All the best,
Edd
Edd M. Schillay
Starship Enterprise
C&C 37+ | Sail No: NCC-1701-B
City Island, NY
Starship Enterprise's Captain's Log
On Jul 14, 2014, at 10:41 AM, David Jacobs via CnC-List <[email protected]>
wrote:
> After picking up our mooring and locking the wheel I felt something
> “banging”. I quickly found that the source was the rudder moving side to side
> as the boat swung on the mooring. I went down below and found that the
> steering cables were fairly slack and there was quite a bit of play, hence
> the back and forth movement. The top of the emergency tiller post was also
> moving not symmetrically within it’s fitting as though the bearings around
> the rudder post weren’t tight (something to do in the fall) It seems like
> there should be a pulley attached to a spring (an idler) to provide a
> calibrated pull on the cables and take up the slack. If that is not the
> answer then how tight should the cables be? I haven’t dived into it yet but
> when I do is there an obvious way to shorten the steering cables?
>
> Dave
> Saltaire C&C 35 MK3
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