Repairing rudder chips

Start To Win is brilliant but you can take a few basics and make big steps (my favourite is "keep it flat in heavy weather")

Basically there are three rules you need to learn.

1) To be able to sail the craft as fast as everyone else without thinking about it almost on autopilot.

2) To know how to work out the shortest or fastest route around a course.

3) To start a microsecond before everyone else from the right end of the startline.

Simples

Edited by iGRF - 24 Aug 18 at 5:55pm

Professionals use 3M Magic tape.  I cut up little squares of clear report binding covers, and tape them over the repair, you can squeeze out the epoxy/microfibres and see what’s going on.  If you are lucky it will set with no need to fair, just tidy up the trailing edge.  Might also consider chamfering back before filling to increase the contact area with the epoxy ... a round file or a Dremel would do the job.

The above advice does assume its a gel coated rudder. Not all are...

Stay away from the brown parcel tape! The tape comes off leaving a right mess of adhesive behind. Plain old sellotape is what I have found works best. All it is doing is excluding air (oxygen) so the gelcoat dries hard rather than tacky.