{"id":1430,"date":"1999-11-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1999-11-30T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/?p=1430"},"modified":"2015-10-16T12:09:09","modified_gmt":"2015-10-16T17:09:09","slug":"self-steering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/self-steering\/","title":{"rendered":"Self-Steering"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"question\">\n<p>In the Dashews&#8217; book, in a chapter on self-steering, they make a comment on sheet-to-tiller self-steering. Would it be possible to have more details on the how-to-do-it?. Thank you. Claudio <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"answer\">\n<p>Hi Claudio: This is a big subject&#8211;one could write a whole book on this alone! Basically, you need to experiment. Every boat and set of wind\/sea conditions is different. Have several lengths\/weights of bungee cord to play with&#8211;and half a dozen small blocks. Usually some form of small headsail&#8211;a staysail or storm jib is used to supply the steering pressure. Good Luck &#8211; Steve <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the Dashews&#8217; book, in a chapter on self-steering, they make a comment on sheet-to-tiller self-steering. Would it be possible <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/self-steering\/\">&#8230;Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech-talk","category-self-steering-faqs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1430"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1430"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36163,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1430\/revisions\/36163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}