Re: Struggling with drum and pulley steering

[vintin]

I can see where two springs could make an oscillating circuit and maybe cause a little engine and steering wobble as resonant frequencies are excited. With one spring half of the sine wave is damped. Thinking about it makes it seem as no springs at all would be better. Movement of the motor cost speed and efficiency. It all may be a moot point. I’ll have to sit in the back of a friends boat and give the system a good watch sometime. Tilting and trimming takes various lengths of cable in this system unless the geometries are perfect and mine never are.