[Rhodes22-list] How to lock rudder pintles?

[Mary Lou Troy]

The only time this really comes into play is if you are motoring 
(maybe sailing) or at anchor and a wave lifts you and drops you 
straight down in such a way that your rudder hits something without a 
chance to kick up. We had this happen to us as we were motoring over 
a shallow area with a lot of debris. A fairly gently swell  passed 
under us and the rudder hit something, popping it up and out of the 
gudgeons. Fred was steering and was left holding the rudder by the 
tiller. He didn't drop it. If had been me with my smaller hands and 
weaker grip we probably would have lost it. We added a hose clamp to 
one of the pintles after that. I'm not sure if it's still there. Fred 
would have to comment on that. I think transom damage is unlikely 
except in very unusual circumstances. In our case, we might have 
taken a nick on the rudder itself but probably nothing serious as it 
was a rather gently bump.

In the slip with the rudder raised and the tiller tied off so it 
doesn't move, I don't think it would be much of a problem.

Mary Lou



At 02:28 PM 6/17/2013, you wrote:
>thanks for the input. Sounds like it could be a danger just sitting at the
>dock with waves, wakes and storms coming thru. Could mess up transom pretty
>bad.
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