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mmadge
 Post subject: Rudder question
PostPosted: Wed Oct 15, 2008 5:43 pm 
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What would be the purpose of the blue line located on the tiller arm?

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Rick Buchanan
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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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mmadge
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Yes the rudder arm.
Maybe Jerome Le Gal has found some go fast secret :lol: .
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mmiller
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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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mdgann
 Post subject: blue line
PostPosted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 12:10 pm 
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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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mmiller
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Yes.

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Good idea, I like it. :)
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