Repair of Tango's Rudder
For my Tayana boat buddies.
This is a blog to "carry" the photos of our rudder discovery, removal from the boat, dissection, and rebuild.
The short story - while on the hardstand we found a what looked like a crack about a foot from the top of the rudder. It was very hard to see by peeking in when the skeg hides the leading edge of the rudder. We also had a big rubbed hole on the trailing edge of the rudder where we caught something during the transit from Tonga to NZ. No clue how anything could rub on the trailing edge and we never noticed anything.
43 years of wear and tear. I'm pretty sure that sitting in the mud at Westpoint Harbor, Redwood City CA contributed to this wear. Spring tides had us into the mud enough to occasionally lean Tango.
We did not see the damage during our haulout in MX. We did remove 100% of the paint, without removing the rudder. The damage was well hidden by the skeg.
You can see the crack on the forward edge of this post's picture. Look at the gallery. The rudder was structurally ok, just beat up! Cracks all around the rudder post entry, and at the bottom. Great job by the boatyard fixing this over a 2 week period.
A new photo gallery was uploaded just for the rudder project. Rudder came out better than new.
This is a blog to "carry" the photos of our rudder discovery, removal from the boat, dissection, and rebuild.
The short story - while on the hardstand we found a what looked like a crack about a foot from the top of the rudder. It was very hard to see by peeking in when the skeg hides the leading edge of the rudder. We also had a big rubbed hole on the trailing edge of the rudder where we caught something during the transit from Tonga to NZ. No clue how anything could rub on the trailing edge and we never noticed anything.
43 years of wear and tear. I'm pretty sure that sitting in the mud at Westpoint Harbor, Redwood City CA contributed to this wear. Spring tides had us into the mud enough to occasionally lean Tango.
We did not see the damage during our haulout in MX. We did remove 100% of the paint, without removing the rudder. The damage was well hidden by the skeg.
You can see the crack on the forward edge of this post's picture. Look at the gallery. The rudder was structurally ok, just beat up! Cracks all around the rudder post entry, and at the bottom. Great job by the boatyard fixing this over a 2 week period.
A new photo gallery was uploaded just for the rudder project. Rudder came out better than new.
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