What would be the purpose of the blue line located on the tiller arm?
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| Author: | mmadge [ Wed Oct 15, 2008 5:43 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Rudder question |
What would be the purpose of the blue line located on the tiller arm?
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| Author: | Rick Buchanan [ Wed Oct 15, 2008 6:08 pm ] |
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Do you mean the rudder arm? The short piece of blue line? Best guess it's there to keep the rudder arm from moving to a 90 degree position to the hulls, which would allow an un-pinned rudder pin to fall out of the casting & gudgeon if the boat was to go turtle. Probably one of the best things you can do with rudder pins is to drill a very small hole thru it and insert a safety pin type of cotter pin to secure it to the transom of the boat. Where to drill the hole will depend on the type of gudgeons you have. |
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| Author: | mmadge [ Thu Oct 16, 2008 11:09 am ] |
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Yes the rudder arm. Maybe Jerome Le Gal has found some go fast secret  .
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| Author: | mmiller [ Thu Oct 16, 2008 11:31 am ] |
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Bungee... not line. Holds the rudder down (or up) a bit better in case the cam trips... rudder still stays down. |
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| Author: | mdgann [ Thu Oct 16, 2008 12:10 pm ] |
| Post subject: | blue line |
Is it just looped around the rudder adjustment bolt on the tiller arm and then around the pin on the bottom? It is hard to see in the picture. |
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| Author: | mmiller [ Fri Oct 17, 2008 8:42 am ] |
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Yes. |
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| Author: | mmadge [ Fri Oct 17, 2008 11:15 am ] |
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Good idea, I like it. 
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