This also can act as a nice backup if your quadrant somehow fails, allowing you to still steer the boat.
Fred Street -- Minneapolis S/V Oceanis (1979 C&C Landfall 38) -- Bayfield, WI > On Jul 7, 2015, at 4:08 PM, Josh Muckley via CnC-List <cnc-list@cnc-list.com> > wrote: > > And finally, mounting the bronze arm on the rudder shaft acts as a retainer > so that in the event that the quadrant and the roller bolt broke or came > loose the rudder wouldn't have a chance to fall out of the boat.
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