[Public-List] A rudder question

[George Dinwiddie]

J,

Where is your prop if you have no aperture?

There are some original Whitby drawings of the rudder post (courtesy of 
Michael Grosh) available at 
http://alberg30.org/maintenance/Steering/RudderPost/ and 
http://alberg30.org/maintenance/Steering/RudderVarieties/ shows some 
various rudders.  The Maintenance Manual also has some sketches and 
descriptions of the rudder and descriptions of repairs to the pin at the 
bottom.

As you see in the drawings, the rudder post is in two pieces, at least 
in the boats I'm familiar with.

A crack in the fiberglass should be easy to repair from the outside 
using standard fiberglass patching techniques (see 
http://alberg30.org/maintenance/HullDeck/SmallBoatPatch/ for a 
description).  If the fiberglass has broken away from the rudderpost, 
then he'll want to get inside the rudder to fix that.

There's been discussion of building a rudder from scratch on this list. 
  You can use the Google search box on the alberg30.org site to search 
both the website and the list archives.

  - George

J Bergquist wrote:
> Folks,
> 
> I spoke with Owen Zeimer yesterday who is a new Alberg owner. He is from
> Australia (I think) but lives in the UK (again, I think), and his boat is on
> the Chesapeake. He's busy doing some initial-owner maintenance/upgrade type
> stuff and he has been talking to me about replacing his motor, which is how
> I know him.
> 
> Yesterday he called me and asked a rudder question I did not know the answer
> to. He's not able to post on the list right now, so I told him I would ask
> the question to the list on his behalf.
> 
> Owen has a rudder which has a cutout aperture. His initial question was for
> those of us who have apertures in their rudders (I am not in that group as
> my rudder has no aperture), is there some structural member which spans the
> rudder from the tiller connection all the way to the bottom pintle? I am not
> sure whether his rudder is original or rebuilt and what vintage or hull #
> his boat is.
> 
> As a secondary question, his problem is that in way of the aperture there is
> apparently a crack in the rudder such that if he hangs on it, the rudder
> flexes significantly in way of this crack. He is concerned about the
> rudder's structural integrity and wonders if anybody has done a repair for a
> problem of this type. As a follow-on to this, has anybody ever built a new
> rudder? I thought I read somewhere a web page about rebuilding an Alberg
> rudder, but I can't remember where and was unable to find it again. George,
> if htere is a page about this could you send a link?
> 
> Owen is very appreciative of any suggestions list readers may have on this
> subject.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> J Bergquist
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