Anyone interested in hand-steering that last 650 nautical miles...??? Protect your wires from chafe or you may just be hand steering for the next few days on that long off shore passage........!


These wires passed through a locker and the hanging items frequently moved under sail, pulled on the wire and chafed it against the sharp fiberglass. After unloading piles of stuff from this locker, think "crammed with clowns in a Volkswagen", I discovered this chafe and could replicate it by moving stuff in the locker.. In its installed position the chafe could barely be seen but when the wires were pulled you could easily see it.