[Rhodes22-list] Curved Rudder | 84 Rhodes 22

[Chris on LBI]

I was able to take a look at the rudder yesterday. In hindsight, I can't 
believe that it took me 5 full seasons of sailing to recognize that this 
was a potential problem. Attached are three photos. The first gives a 
sense of how far the rudder swings under the hull when the down-haul is 
used to pull the rudder against the "stop".  In the second photo I have 
placed a white piece of plastic vertically to make more obvious how much 
past vertical the rudder is when it is against the stop. The forward 
edge of the white plastic is parallel with the forward edge of the 
rudder head. The third photo shows the "stop" which is the forward side 
of the rudder head (as Roger stated).

As Roger predicted in his previous email, it appears that the mechanical 
variations of this particular rudder and rudder head allow the rudder to 
rotate too far forward. As he suggested, I will experiment with a shim 
to correct this. If this does not work out easily, I will place a mark 
on the up-haul so that I know how far to deploy it to keep the rudder 
from over-rotating, and then tension the down-haul against it.

Chris
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