July 4, 2011

• Rudderless

  I really don’t have time to build a rudder from scratch, but it still is fun to look up other people’s work.  There is an abundance of sailing and wooden boat-building forums these days, which didn’t exist back when I started this web log.

  Below, I bookmarked a few links to some good info on building a small dinghy rudder:

  
  

  http://www.sailnet.com/forums/gear-maintenance/38967-need-make-new-rudder.html — Sailnet.com is awesome!

  http://www.sailnet.com/forums/gear-maintenance/6736-building-rudder-sealing-marine-plywood.html — a thread about sealing marine plywood

  http://www.rigrite.com/Hardware/Rudder_Hardware/Rudder&Tiller_Heads.html#Tiller%20Heads — sells rudder/tiller heads/pintles/gudgeons

  http://www.sailnet.com/forums/seamanship/27069-making-passage-w-o-rudder.html — a thread that discusses what to do in an emergecy, if you lose your rudder

  http://www.oneoceankayaks.com/kayakrudder.htm — kayak carbon fiber rudders (a nice alternative to wood)

   

   

   

   

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