Posted by Laurence Monkhouse on February 09, 2004 at 17:42:00 from 217.137.106.64 user Laurence_.
In Reply to: Boats posted by John Nichols on February 09, 2004 at 15:00:18:
i doubt if there were any. A dinghy of that type - and my own HEBE today - had a fairly thick rudder stock and the tiller was a simple slightly curved bar of wood - probably ash - which fitted through a rectangular hole in the rudder stock above the level of the transom and had shoulders to prevent it going through too far. You can have a pin through the back end to hold it when in place, but I don't recall AR mentioning one and I don't personally think they are really necessary.
There certainly wouldn't have been a tiller extension or any of the modern fancy fittings seen in racing dinghies