Tod, I too use a clam cleat to hold the rudder in the raised position. However, when the boat is in the water, the bouyancy of the rudder makes it rather easy to lift for the first half of the upward movement, and a good tug on the line, starting with the first movement, adds enough momentum to bring it the rest of the way with ease. Is it really necessary for the 2:1 mechanical advantage of the moving pulley? And you are a big guy, Tod, or is it that Bilbo's teeth are failing in his old age and needs all the help he can get. Good deck hands are hard to come by.
I'm learning to use the Garmin GPSMAP 296 in the air. Hope I can take some of the experience to the BlueChart area. Give Bilbo an extra pat. Clarence M-17 #604 Carpe Ventum ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Maria Jorge'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "'For and about Montgomery Sailboats'" <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, January 23, 2005 9:18 PM Subject: RE: M_Boats: M17 Rudders Yes, I drilled a hole clear thru the bottom rudder gudgeon (both straps). Then, (actually before....I had to know what size to drill) I bought a pin at my local hardware store. If you can find a clevis pin long enough, that would work fine. I don't think I found one long enough so I bought a pin at the hardware store. A clevis pin would be useable as is, but I had to drill the little holes in my pin for the split rings. Then I vewy cawefuwwy hold the block down inside the gudgeon and thread the pin through the whole lot. You can kind of see the end of the pin in my pic. The block I used was a Harken #292, I think. That is one with a swivel on it so the pin can be parallel to the block axis (i.e. the block can be oriented so the line comes in from the port side and goes back up to the stbd side instead of coming in at the front and going back up at the back against the mahogany). I hope I haven't just muddied the waters. There's probably a better way to do it, let alone describe it! :-) Tod -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Maria Jorge Sent: Sunday, January 23, 2005 8:36 PM To: For and about Montgomery Sailboats Subject: Re: M_Boats: M17 Rudders Thanks, Tod this helps. So basically you drilled through the gudgeon and placed a block in between? What did you use to hold the block? Maria ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'For and about Montgomery Sailboats'" <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, January 23, 2005 6:33 PM Subject: RE: M_Boats: M17 Rudders > Maria, > > Here is a picture showing the block. It would have been better if I > had drilled the holes in the gudgeon slightly more aft (closer to the mahogany) > than I did (I probably could have avoided the chafe that this picture > illustrates). I had left the rudder mounted for a week or two, not > raised completely and the line chafed on the transom gudgeon. I > replaced the line > and am careful not to leave the rudder in a position not quite fully raised > and haven't had any more chafing since. > > www.bright.net/~htmills/BuscaRudderChafe.jpg > > Tod > > > _______________________________________________ > http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/montgomery_boats _______________________________________________ http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/montgomery_boats _______________________________________________ http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/montgomery_boats _______________________________________________ http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/montgomery_boats
