[Public-list] Rudder Shoe Pin

[George Dinwiddie]

Linc,

I think you want the pin to turn in the shoe, not turn in the 
rudderstock.  I would not advise pinning it to the shoe.

  - George

Lincoln Finkenberg wrote:
> Mike: Did you think I was referring to the bolt that taps through the aft part of the shoe into the keel?  I was referring to a way to keep the "rudder shoe pin" (which I thought was the bolt that was tapped into the shoe and went up into the rudder) from unscrewing
>  
> .... in that context does my earlier harangue make sense?  Linc.
>  
> +++++++++++
> 
> How would drilling through the shoe, and putting a cotter pin through the 
> show and bolt, help to hold the shoe on? Isn't the purpose of the bolt to 
> hold the shoe in place, and not the purpose of the shoe to hold the bolt in 
> place?

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