Based on a Walt Murray design. Like all of my projects, it works in theory. First test at the end of the month. At least it looks cheap and complicated, which is what I was going for.
Update 2/19/12: The oar hinge busted on my first sea trial due to fore/aft stresses, so I rebuilt the vane out of sturdier stuff and with simpler (i.e., less kludgy) mechanical linkages. I uploaded a video of the new system for those interested.
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