I'm also curious about the thinking on the strength of kick up rudders in general. Once upon a time, a lot of folks seemed to think rudders needed to be supported with gudgeons top to bottom and resembled barn doors. Then spade rudders like the M17 one piece started being use.......and they seemed strong enough, except in a severe grounding, when either the pin gets bent, gudgeons get pulled out or both. And now these kick up rudders, which are only held by one bolt through a couple rudder cheeks. Have there been any failures with these or are the proving strong enough? Obviously if they ground, they kick up but will they stand up to the side stresses of a rudder loaded up from weather helm? On Apr 4, 2015, at 8:11 PM, Tom Smith wrote:
So jerry, why didn't you do this kind of lifting mech. on the M17s? All the stock M17 rudders I'm familiar with lift on a bronze rod. Or did I miss something? t