Steering, Removing the Pedestal

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Bertil Rafting
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Steering, Removing the Pedestal

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I have just bought 26M built 2009 and live in Sweden. I was very irritated of the big place the pedestal took, so I took it away and connected the starboard rudder with a pipe reaching slightly over the hull and there I put a rudder head. So now I am glad again. Are there any of you forum members who made the same thing? Or what do you think of that idea?
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cmagnus4
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Re: Steering, Removing the Pedestal

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Have you seen this http://www.ecoyachts.com.au/option-gallery.html

Where are you sailing?

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Bertil Rafting
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Re: Steering, Removing the Pedestal

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Lovely to see!
Bertil Rafting
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Re: Steering, Removing the Pedestal

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Hallo Claes. I am sailing in Stockholm.
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