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Amazing. Wonder if that was closed cell foam?
In Response To: No, the skin was lost while just sailing along in nice conditions 
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() This, by the way, is a piece on various types of rudder construction.
http://www.sailfeed.com/2012/09/fiberglass-boatbuilding-rudder-construction/
Some high tech rudderless have machined cores closed cell cores. In those the carbon fiber post actually is tied to the skin without an integral framework.
http://www.fastcomposites.ca/publications/WhitePapers/BetterSpadeRudder.pdf
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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.