[Public-List] Rudder needs some love

[Gordon Laco]

Here's who I'd recommend.... They're on Shelter Island - nice people who
know wooden boats and do terrific work.

http://www.koehlerkraft.com/


On 31/03/14 9:37 AM, "Gordon Laco" <mainstay at csolve.net> wrote:

> Hello - 
> 
> I do - stand by a moment while I get their contact info.   I was in San
> Diego for my Tall Ships America board meeting in January and visited
> them.... Will send you the contact data shortly.
> 
> If your rudder doesn't have straps, it might have drifts or long pins that
> run through holes bored edge-wise in the flat timbers.  That's the old
> fashioned way to build a wooden rudder and might have been used in your
> case.
> 
> Gord #426 Surprise
> 
> 
> 
> On 29/03/14 11:48 AM, "GregR" <gregr at nethere.com> wrote:
> 
>> Gord,
> You wouldn't happen to know someone here in San Diego that knows wood
>> boats? It would worth it to pay an expert to take a quick look. Most of the
>> guys in the yard acted like they had never seen a woodenp rudder.
> It is
>> clearly soaked through. There were two sets of horizontal stiffeners. These
>> were eaten by worms. I don't see any evidence of the metal straps shown in
>> the
>> pictures on the website. I don't see any worm damage on the
>> blade. 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Greg
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