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Nevermind, I just reread your description
In Response To: Most of the spade rudders I have seen are not built as you describe 
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() I originally read it as a vertical triangle off the back (like a crude rudder outline), but now realize that you meant a horizontal triangle off the post side tangents, like is shown in the Foss Foam pictures.
Mark
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- Interesting comment by Charles Doane on his blog
- I saw that. The gremlins in that story are inside those rudders.
- I've been surprised by a couple of comments made in follow up to this event...
- I'm not. The experts a thousand miles away always make the most noise.
- You're right, of course - but I was actually thinking of Charlie's subsequent comments/clarifications (grin)
- Ahh. Close reaching vs. fore reaching, 4 kts. vs. 6 kts. 'considerable discrepancies' between captain and crew?
- Don't disagree with your first comment at all...
- Don't forget the simple stuff, 2 rudders folded up on this new boat as it was going through the water.
- Well, by the same token, don't ignore the obvious... (grin)
- I think a new rudder should put up with any force the water applies.
- Doane says the shaft was not bent.
- It probably would have happened anyway
- I think a new rudder should put up with any force the water applies.
- Well, by the same token, don't ignore the obvious... (grin)
- Don't forget the simple stuff, 2 rudders folded up on this new boat as it was going through the water.
- Don't disagree with your first comment at all...
- Ahh. Close reaching vs. fore reaching, 4 kts. vs. 6 kts. 'considerable discrepancies' between captain and crew?
- You're right, of course - but I was actually thinking of Charlie's subsequent comments/clarifications (grin)
- Well Jon, as has been pointed out, I'm no engineer
- I'm not. The experts a thousand miles away always make the most noise.
- Here's the cached page
- I saw that. The gremlins in that story are inside those rudders.