It really does help, thank you. I'll plan to do what you outlined and if I run into issues I may just message you directly.
Ian Tubby Icicle C&C 25 Mk1 St. Pete, FL ke 19. elok. 2020 klo 21.48 Don Marlin via CnC-List (cnc-list@cnc-list.com) kirjoitti: > Stephen, I have built many rudders. I just finished a year building > rudders for a living as a break from my normal gig. It was a > nice sabbatical but quite demanding physically. If you want a nice rudder > built for you contact Competition Composites, they build nice products. > > For a transom hung rudder you cannot (should not) use just foam in the > core. When we built transom hung rudders they were either mostly glassed > wood cores or a composite foam core with a fairly substantial wood stringer > laminated in the centre. When we had foam/wood composite cores there was > usually lots of carbon uni involved as well. I have built a few Shark > rudders as well as a Mirage 25 rudder. They were always solid wood cores. > > It sounds like yours is a wood core possibly (probably) with a glass skin. > Coincidently I just rebuilt my Oday Mariner rudder. It is transome hung > with a wood core/glass skin. > > For that rebuild I sanded off all the old skin, checked for/fixed any rot > and then reskinned with 2 layers of 6 or 10oz cloth + epoxy. I can contact > you off list if you want more specific details on the process but generally > it is not difficult, just takes some time and care. > > Hope that helps > _______________________________________________ > > Thanks everyone for supporting this list with your contributions. Each > and every one is greatly appreciated. If you want to support the list - > use PayPal to send contribution -- https://www.paypal.me/stumurray > >
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