I took the boat out for its first sail this year and lost the rudder.
Do you guys think this is reparable or am I buying a new boat? It’d be a shame to lose her over something so stupid
I took the boat out for its first sail this year and lost the rudder.
Do you guys think this is reparable or am I buying a new boat? It’d be a shame to lose her over something so stupid
This happened mid sail, but we were fortunate enough to get a tow back to the dock and on a lift
I’m glad it was this and not the mast
They’re making a joke. https://youtu.be/3m5qxZm_JqM
Lol that’s the first time ive seen that
Well now you’ll get the joke anytime someone says the front fell off 😅. It’s pretty often referenced.
Oof! That sounds exciting. What took the rudder off?
A wave hit it.
A wave - in the ocean? chance in a million.
I wish I could tell you.
My best guess is that the pin bounced out when i was trying to help my wife uncleat the jib and the pressure just ripped the rudder right off. It was just a perfect storm of a large wind gust, waves, and a hardware failure
I hope you get it fixed and back on the water soon.
Thank you sbv!
Hope you can get it fixed and enjoy the water!
You forgot too-flimsy engineering for the conditions.
c a marchaj & Dave Gerr both spoke against too-flimsy engineering, & the industry generally doesn’t care ( boats which disappear don’t make headlines: only ones noticed to be disappearing do, right? )
That boat needs to, if fixed, NEVER go into conditions as rough as what it was in.
It may well have been oversold/under-engineered for what the marketing said it was for.
Please consider investing in both Dave Gerr’s “Elements of Boat Strength” & a book named “Surveying Yachts And Small Craft”,
and then earn enough understanding to figure out how sound your boat is.
Those 2 books cost drastically less than a new boat, & they’ll help you in any future boat-purchases you make, too.
Warning, though: nearly no boats are up to Gerr’s scantlings ( thicknesses of different areas of a hull, for all who haven’t been dredged through boatish lingo before ).
( other authors worth investing-in: Nigel Calder & Tom Cunliffe )
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