Steering cable question

[jeffandlori]

Hello Pearson people!  Looking to join the ranks of 365 owners soon myself and am looking at one in a serious way.  My question is about something I saw in the steering gear.  It was in the water and it turns smoothly lock to lock.  I had my wife turn it while I looked at the gear and saw no odd movement in the gear below deck.  What I did see was a misalignment of the cable where it enters the groove on the quadrant.  It rides noticeably to one side of the grove and is at a visibly different angle than the plane of the quadrant.  The quadrant itself seems to be 2 piece, which seems odd but may be normal.  Is the different angle normal?  Not having looked at a lot of steering it is hard to know, but the mechanically inclined part of me thinks that it would wear more or be more failure prone.

[John Childs]

Guys, Check out edsonmarine.com/Captain-Q. There are some videos to help. Good luck and Fair Seas.

[SVJourney]

Looks to me like the quadrant is installed upside down for some reason.  Somebody did a rudder repack?  As bad as the alignment looks, the wear patterns look almost normal.