First sail of the season
First sail of the season
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
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That’s not very typical, I’d like to make that point.
Luckily it was outside the environment when this occurred
What sort of materials were used in construction?
Well no cardboard that's for sure
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.
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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 ).
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