tiller arm thing

[jojoknitter]

morning

 

i have no tiller arm on my boat ( just bought the boat )....we are becomming constant cruisers and will obvioulsy need one. I assume that s what that bit is called.....the bit you steer the boat with.... but we do have the bit coming up out of the deck .

 

I have tried finding a supplier on the internet - does sanyone know where I can find one on Oxford area reletavly cheaply??

 

[bottle]

All chandlers will sell them for example: http://www.midlandchandlers.co.uk/searchre...archTerm=tiller

 

Make sure you get the right size (diameter) and length.

[aread2]

Tooley's at Banbury are probably the nearest bricks and mortar chandler. Otherwise Midland Chandler's have a web site while Ledgard bridge offer a ten percent discount for forum members I believe.

[david and julie]

i have no tiller arm on my boat ( just bought the boat )....we are becomming constant cruisers and will obvioulsy need one.

Have you had a good look around the boat? Most of us take them off at night to stop them getting pinched and it may be stored somewhere.

[alan_fincher]

Have you had a good look around the boat? Most of us take them off at night to stop them getting pinched and it may be stored somewhere.

The boat next to ours had been up for sale at the marina, and was already under offer, awaiting survey when the current owner lent it out to a bunch of mates for the weekend.

 

We encountered them causing various chaos down Marsworth locks, before deciding to call it a day.

 

When we passed they had tied to the piling at one end, and were busy attacking the brass tiller bar with a lump hammer ramming it into the towpath like a scaffold pole to secure the other end.

 

I have always assumed one of the things the new owners found on their "unexpected purchase" list was a new tiller bar.

[Bones]

heyford have them. I have a short brass one with no wooden end you can have if you come and get it.

[Theo]

If the top of the steel swan neck is at the right height then a normal straight one (of the right length) should be OK. On my boat the top section of the swan nexk is no horizontal so the bass tiller has a bend in it to bring the end down to the right height.

 

Nick

[Dr Bradley]

Since I picked up the boat, I've been using a short piece of steel tube. Not very satisfactory but sufficient. This week it got nicked.

[cheshire~rose]

This week it got nicked.

 

Thats awfull!

 

I hope you don't have to give up pole dancing now

[Athy]

A wicked little thought just crossed my mind: you don't moor near Jojo, by any chance?

[jojoknitter]

heyford have them. I have a short brass one with no wooden end you can have if you come and get it.

 

 

hello bones!

 

where are you moored up these days? thanks for the offer....

[Bones]

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