How long is your tiller

[icecreamman]

I know this may sound daft, but as I do not have a daggerboard type rudder, is it not possible to move their vertical position during a race should conditions demand?

[mutt]

not without kneeling in the back of the boat and heaving on it. perhaps I could rig up some devilishly clever lifting mechanism hanging off the boom but as it stands I'll be zig zagging everywhere trying to get the damned thing up.