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

  • @[email protected]OPEnglish
    6•24 days ago

    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

        • @tylerEnglish
          4•23 days ago

          Well now you’ll get the joke anytime someone says the front fell off 😅. It’s pretty often referenced.

      • @[email protected]OPEnglish
        2•23 days ago

        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

        • @[email protected]English
          0•23 days ago

          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.

          Please consider investing in both Dave Gerr’s “Elements of Boat Strength” & a book named “Surveying Yachts And Small Craft”,

          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 ).

          ( other authors worth investing-in: Nigel Calder & Tom Cunliffe )

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