Hi there,

While recently browsing some catamaran add's we noticed one that looked like it had no steering wheel or tiller and on further reading of the add found out that it had "fulcrum tiller steering".

I have been involved in sailing for five over decades and have never heard this term until now.

I fully understand what a fulcrum is and how it works and can even imagine how it could be used to steer a boat but for the life of me have never seen or heard of it before and can't see how it would have any benefits over tillers or wheel steering.

Common sense tels us that conventional tiller steering is a form of fulcrum steering but in this case it is used in a different way.

I have tried Goggling it with no results and tried looking elsewhere without much luck. Can someone shine some light on this for me or perhaps provide a link or pointer to where I might learn a bit more about this.

Thanks in advance.