[Rhodes22-list] Curved Rudder | 84 Rhodes 22

[Graham Stewart]

My rudder contains a weight that looked like lead to me at the bottom tip. I know the lead is there because I sanded through the gel coat and saw it - not a bright idea. I don't know of any other metal elsewhere in the rudder.

Given the amount of voids in my rudder's core, I think the weight was needed to keep the rudder down. I filled all of the voids as best I could because I was concerned that water might make its way into the core and then freeze in the winter. That should also make the rudder significantly heavier - especially when submerged.

I have no idea whether boats of other vintages would have similarly built rudders. Only Stan would know that.


Graham Stewart
Agile. R22, 1976
Kingston Ontario Canada




-----Original Message-----
From: Rhodes22-list [mailto:rhodes22-list-bounces at rhodes22.org] On Behalf Of Peter Nyberg
Sent: December 5, 2017 5:28 PM
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Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Curved Rudder | 84 Rhodes 22

Not that I’m doubting Graham, but that seems extremely odd to me.  I can see that there might be reasons to use a metal core to add weight to the centerboard (in which case it might be more of a swing keel), but I don’t see why you would do that with a rudder.

I know this doesn’t help at all with the curved rudder issue, but I really have nothing useful to say on that topic.

Peter Nyberg
Coventry, CT
s/v Silverheels (1988/2016)


> On Dec 5, 2017, at 4:59 PM, Graham Stewart <gstewart8 at cogeco.ca> wrote:
> 
> Bob:
> It is hard to see the twist from the photo. Mine (1976) is made of a 
> fibreglass shell with a metal (lead?) weight at the tip and some kind 
> of fill inside. I found that there were a lot of large voids inside 
> that I located by drilling holes and tapping. I filled what I could 
> find with epoxy.
> 

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