steering and direction

[fc]

What direction should the motor be pointing when the direction of the steering wheel is right should it be opposite or the same direction? thanks, fc

 

[blifsey]

Re: steering and direction

When steering wheel is turned to the right, the motor should turn in a counter-clockwise direction as viewed from above. This causes the prop to push the rear of boat to left of current direction causing boat to turn right. I think I visualized that correctly. Place a pencil on the table and push eraser with a finger. To make pencil turn right, you push erase of pencil to the left.<br /><br />BL...

 

[Mumblerone]

Re: steering and direction

I might be from a different planet...but here goes. When you turn your steering wheel to the right as when making a right hand turn in a car; the boat turns right. Right? The motor (outboard) when looked at as a bird would, that is flying...would rotate counter clockwise. How else could I explain it?

 

[blifsey]

Re: steering and direction

This could easily turn into a "Who's on first" thread.<br /><br />"Ok, I turn the wheel to the right and the boat turns right, so the motor must be turning right, right?"<br />"No, its left."<br />"That's what I said, left is right when turning right."<br />...<br /><br />BL...

 

[fc]

Re: steering and direction

Thanks so much for your replies! This helps tremendously! This has been an ongoing degate since Saturday so this will help answer it once and for all. Happy boating, ours will have to be corrected, I think its wrong, the friend that put it in said that he put it in the same way it came out, which means it was in wrong to begin with.

 

[oldboat1]

Re: steering and direction

probably just semantics -- prop behind you goes to the right when the wheel turns right. Of course that means the faceplate of the motor is going left....<br /><br />I had it backwards a few years ago when I launched my old outboard cruiser. It takes some hard thinking if you have it wrong and have to get into a narrow slip with the wind blowing (and naturally, a bunch of people watching).

 

[blifsey]

Re: steering and direction

Now that would be fun to watch!!! He should have sat on your head like "Mork from York" and it would have been fine.<br />BL...