Poor steering on my 1973 Ericson 27'

[Jeff Asbury]

I recently hauled the boat and replaced the plastic bushing around the rudder post, installed a new prop, but now the tiller pulls pretty hard to port. Any ideas on how to correct this?

The boat was hard steering before. Problem seem to happen mainly under power.

Is there a way to adjust the tiller?

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Jeff Asbury

 

[gwin]

You might try:

http://www.ericson27.com/

This is an active fleet in SF. On their web site under technical Spec is a problem alert. Might try that or try to contact them with the same question.

Clay

 

[Morgan Stinemetz]

I would think that your rudder shaft is bent. There is no reason I can think of, other than that, for it steering poorly. Have you grounded the boat recently? Or since you have had it? The 27 has a spade rudder with nothing to protect it, should you do something nasty.

The problem you have under power, it is my guess, has something to do with torque and prop wash.