AT THE HELM withAndy Schell
Don’t confuse helming a boat with steering a boat. Put it this way—you steer a boat when towing a waterskier or maneuvering around a marina in close quarters. Steering involves deliberate inputs on the wheel (or tiller) in order to move the rudder, which in turn makes the boat change directions.
Helming is not steering. Rather, it is the art of making near-constant, small adjustments to the helm (and thus the rudder) in order to keep the boat going in a straight line. Read that sentence again and let it sink in.
Off shore, I imagine the rudder as another sail
