[alberg30] KC150 Rudder

[Charles Haggart]

Hi Peter:
I keep our boat at the Alexandra Yacht Club we share the same mooring basin
( just out side the western gap) with the National Yacht Club. Your first
guess was right I have tiller steering. although I don't think I have access
to the rudder tube from the Port locker.

Charles
  -----Original Message-----
  From: Michael Hay [mailto:phay at netcom.ca]
  Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 1999 10:33 AM
  To: alberg30 at onelist.com
  Subject: [alberg30] KC150 Rudder


  From:  Peter Hay (Mike is my son and I am using his computer, hence the
name)
             phay at netcom.ca

              We sail out of Goderich (Maitland Valley Marina).  I bought my
boat from a gentleman in Sarnia last fall.  Sounds as if you have tiller
steering (I have wheel steering which requires a different setup).  If that
is the case, you probably have a solid fiberglass tube coming up from the
hull to the bottom of the cockpit floor.  The rudder shaft runs through it.
You probably do not have packing gland as such.  The only way water can get
up to the cockpit floor is if it is forced up by wave action, etc.  You need
to get down into the port locker and take a look at the exact setup of the
rudder.  I suspect that the rudder tube is worn and is allowing water to
freely come up along the rudder shaft between it and the tube.

              There should be lots of help available from others on the
onelist who are more familiar than I am about tiller configurations.  If in
fact you have a wheel configuration I will be glad to assist more.

              Where are you moored?  I am in "TO" a lot and it would be
great talking to you.

  Stay in touch.

  Peter Hay



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