[Public-List] inner stay, rudder tube

[Rachel]

On Jun 13, 2010, at 6:42 PM, gordon white wrote:
>
>   My boat had a fiberglass tube around the rudder stock that  
> reached/ almost /to the under-side of the deck. Under some  
> circumstances she took water there.
>
>  When I added an auto-pilot I had a stuffing box glassed to the top  
> of the tube. I believe other non-liner boats have had the same  
> improvement. (I cannot speak for liner models.)

Hi Gordon,

What sort of improvement did you find with the added stuffing box?  A  
lot of "my kind" of boats have the fiberglass tube reaching up to the  
cockpit sole (including the A-30), so I'm interested.

Thanks,
Rachel
ex #221


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