Very nice installation Todd, I'm going to add it to my rudder.
Wayne
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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
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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
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mahogany)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
linethan 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
and am careful not to leave the rudder in a position not quite fullyraised
and haven't had any more chafing since.
www.bright.net/~htmills/BuscaRudderChafe.jpg
Tod
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