Tiller Pilot Stanchion: 2.0
My preparations for the Inside Passage included installation of a tiller pilot (an excellent investment!). Installing it proved challenging, though, requiring the crafting of a stanchion to support it at the right elevation and distance from the tiller. One of my crises-of-the-day early in the trip was the delamination of the stanchion that I had taken sculptural pains to craft. I describe this effort at length in an earlier post , but the pictures below show the approach and what I thought at the time was an elegant response to the functional requirement. laminated oak stanchion Stanchion in use Except that it didn't hold up: it began to delaminate early on. Bad epoxy mix? Oily wood? Under-engineered? I don't know. Three long drywall screws driven at angles helped, and I followed up by taping the stanchion like a broken ankle with high tension strapping tape - at least a half dozen opposing diagonal layers. That sufficed for...