[Rhodes22-list] Another rudder downhaul question

[Rory Orkin]

Yeah I have the same set up with the clutch.. Do the downhaul lines run down
inside the rudder housing or to the outside of the housing and up.. If they
go outside do they go through any turning /restraining bar at the bottom ? I
guess some pictures would help if I get my act together :-)
Mine goes inside .  I am trying to figure out if mine was rigged properly.


Woten wrote:
> 
> 
> Rory,
>  
> I've got the electric lift also, sounds like we have very similar  setups.  
> When I pull up the downhaul there is a small clutch attached to  the
> rudder 
> post beneath the  tiller that I can screw down to  pinch the downhaul line
> so 
> that it won't flow free (i.e. be pulled back down by  the water flowing
> past the 
> part of it that is still in the water and then  possibly dragging the line 
> into the prop - I doubt the line is long enough  to reach the prop, but I
> haven't 
> tried).  The downhaul line in the  water flutters as the water flows past
> it 
> when we're underway, but it's  secured at both ends and doesn't really go 
> anywhere, much less anywhere near the  prop.  Because the line is not very
> long 
> and also secured at both ends and  well away from the prop, I've never
> worried 
> about it flowing into the  prop.
>  
> If the rudder were to hit something and kick up, I imagine the downhaul 
> line 
> in the clutch would pop free and let the rudder rise, so I try not to  
> tighten the clutch too much, but I try to keep some tension on the clutch
> so the  
> downhaul line is secured so that the rudder doesn't flow-up as a result of
> our  
> being underway.  I've been securing the downhaul to be sure the rudder is  
> fully down and stays down.
>  
> Does the above map into how you're set up and how you operate?  If it 
> does, 
> it will be interesting to find out whether the downhaul line is long 
> enough 
> to foul the prop (I suspect it's not) but that would only happen if  I
> screwed 
> up and forgot to secure the downhaul line or did not secure it  properly.  
>  
> Dave
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