Speedwheel & Gearshift

[Timleech]

Will they just be tapping it and wondering why nothing happens?

 

 

I wonder whether I could get used to that... Anyone got a Large Northwich I could try?

 

GU motor boats were commonly anticlock to increase speed. I often steered a friend's (also ex-GU) boat which was the opposite, though the gearchange was anticlock for ahead, so that switching from one GU boat to this one meant that both controls were reversed

 

Tim

Edited October 3, 2008 by Timleech

[Chris-B]

If Liam doesn't want it you could try selling it to me

SteveE

 

 

This is the one we have ( Tony's photo)

C/w swivels and ballsockets

£75.00 inc carriage

Chris

 

 

1st come 1st served I need to have a clearout

[FadeToScarlet]

Copy "Alnwick" and have a speed wheel and a gear wheel....

 

...that would REALLY confuse you! You could tell people that you were winding up the clockwork motor with all the spinning you were doing, every time you came to wind :

[Theo]

As I recall that is the way I have experienced speedwheel and gearshift. Either way I quite like it for boats with classic style low rpm engines and it does give quite good precise control over engine rpm. The only thing I have noticed both for myself and others using it is that when manoeuvring it is a slower process to reduce revs change gear and increase revs again. I guess though it just means you need to plan ahead and anticipate more. Of course it could just be a matter of practice.

 

You could fit a speedwheel to a modern engine set-up but it doesn't seem as right on that kind of motor. I have a modern diesel on mine and I think I would rather stick to a Morse control in that situation.

 

As a different take on this my sister and brother in law's boat has gear wheel and pull-push lever for speed. Weird!

 

Nick

[andywatson]

The ones I've driven, a modern tug, and a Large Northwich, and a couple of others, are both clockwise to speed up, anti clockwise to slow down

 

Mine's anticlockwise to speed up.

I soon got used to it as it's like using a tap.

 

I've not read all posts so excuse me if someone else has already mentioned this:

-I think you could arrange the throttle so it's just a wire wrapped around the speedwheel control rod rather than have a threaded crank jobbie.

It might look a bit crude but I think this was actually used on some old boats.

You would have the advantage of being able to reverse your throttle opening by winding the wire in either direction.

 

Regds A

[ditchcrawler]

The ones I've driven, a modern tug, and a Large Northwich, and a couple of others, are both clockwise to speed up, anti clockwise to slow down

I have only seen one left hander and there the chap used a G clamp to pull a cable, so undoing the G clamp opened the jaws and pulled the cable opening the governor.