So it seems that I probably meant to fix that other cracked one when I got home, and of course totally forgot. Sailed the rest of the '19 vacation, all of the '20, '21 and '22 vacations, and then yesterday I was out for a solo cruise and when the rudder kicked up on a shallow spot it broke out that same back part, on the crack lines that I showed from 2019.
I took it next door to
Hatteras Watersports to borrow a saw and drill, and the bottom line is that while I was at the beach with my family the owner just fixed it on his own using my other cut-down one as a template. Looks beautiful. I'm back in business. Didn't even have the chance to take a photo.
While I'm doing shout-outs about rudders, I can't neglect to mention that last year as I was leaving the beach I stopped at the current
OBX fiberglass Hobie dealer to buy a new main halyard and scored a nice set of 1st-gen EPOs from Hardy. It's actually deliberate that I don't have them with me, because I intend them to be my deep-water rudders. No sense tearing up EPOs on the sand bars on the Pamlico Sound.
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