Tiller steering 250hp

[codprawn]

http://uk.boats.com/news-reviews/dis....html?id=13560

I was stunned to find out that Mercury offer tiller steering up to 250hp - should be fun on a Zapcat!!!

[martini]

That's hilarious! I wonder if it's pull start too?!

[9D280]

Hee hee. Probably manual tilt as well........ Had that been posted tomorrow, I would have been slightly less curious!

Makes you wonder, at 250 is what you can't actually see from the angle of the photo is that it is in fact about 8' long?


That has to be a typo, surely?

[Nos4r2]

Nah,it's probably got its own onboard hydraulic assist. Looks like a hydraulic steering setup on it.


Can't really se why though.

[Jono]

Google is your friend...


http://www.mercurymarine.com/engines...rds/bigtiller/

[codprawn]

Apparently they introduced it because people were making their own with bits of scaffolding pole etc!!!

[ALANT]

Someone needs to tell the MCA it's stupid they require emergency steering, needed it for my last boat and a 225 opti.
Would have been great fun as the controls were about 6ft away

[9D280]

Originally Posted by Nos4r2

Nah,it's probably got its own onboard hydraulic assist. Looks like a hydraulic steering setup on it.

Yeah. the quick look I gave it yesterday I thought someone had just had 10 mins with Photoshop!

I can see the point in emergency steering, but surely if you have lost your steerirng on a 250Hp, surely you'd be somewhat safer going for your tiller steer aux?

Even if it was hydraulic assist, surely the whole reason you would need it would likely be a hydraulics failure in your steering that would render the tiller useless too?

[Poly]

Originally Posted by 9D280

Yeah. the quick look I gave it yesterday I thought someone had just had 10 mins with Photoshop!

I can see the point in emergency steering, but surely if you have lost your steerirng on a 250Hp, surely you'd be somewhat safer going for your tiller steer aux?

Even if it was hydraulic assist, surely the whole reason you would need it would likely be a hydraulics failure in your steering that would render the tiller useless too?

Jono's link seemed to "explain" it - if you "need" a big engine but don't want a console getting in the way.

[prairie tuber]

Tillered outboards up to 200hp are quite common in North America. It frees up alot of deck space for things like ATVs and such.

[nickd]

Anybody been to Thailand? You should see what they view as an outboard over there!!!

[Searider]

Originally Posted by ALANT

Someone needs to tell the MCA it's stupid they require emergency steering, needed it for my last boat and a 225 opti.
Would have been great fun as the controls were about 6ft away

"I can see the point in emergency steering, but surely if you have lost your steerirng on a 250Hp, surely you'd be somewhat safer going for your tiller steer aux? "

A tiller steered aux is acceptable to fulfil the "emergency steering" requirement of the code, but an aux outboard is not required in itself.

So, an emergency tiller that can be fitted to the main engine will come in very handy if the steering fails.

Having experienced steering failure on a small RIB, an emergency tiller would have been very handy.

It's not too difficult to fit to an outboard - this recently seen on one of my customers coded RIBs.

Granted you wouldn't want to be going at speed but it would get you and your passengers home.

It has two holes in the mounting plate - one to go over the securing bolt for the fitted steering and one to secure through the spare hole on the engine tiller.