[Rhodes22-list] Curved Rudder | 84 Rhodes 22

[Curtis Ruck]

>From my understanding the older rudders were made from the same form as the
swing centerboards, and my centerboard and rudder look identical in
shape/weight.

On Tue, Dec 5, 2017 at 5:27 PM Peter Nyberg <peter at sunnybeeches.com> wrote:

> 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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