You can also try handing the slack off to your skipper, it's not like they are doing all that much, how many hands does it take to hold a tiller? I know it's an imposistion for them but they usually get over it... sort of.
UUmmm, I don't recommend this.
I tried it last weekend during Space Coast 45 as I needed to go leeward and clear a block.
"WHAT, You want me to hold that NOW?