Int Canoe Rudders
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Category: Dinghy classes
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Topic: Int Canoe Rudders
Posted By: Blobby
Subject: Int Canoe Rudders
Date Posted: 22 Mar 05 at 12:41am
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Can anyone give me any details how Int. Canoe rudders are fitted to the boat and secured in place? Cheers... |
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Posted By: JimC
Date Posted: 22 Mar 05 at 12:59am
| There's a daggerboard like slot which is slightly larger than the blade. This is filled with a sort of box which has the pivot through the middle with the tiller on the top and the blade on the bottom. You slide the whole assembly in like a daggerboard and the bottom of the box thing is flush with the hull skin. |
Posted By: Blobby
Date Posted: 22 Mar 05 at 3:39am
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That is what I thought - do you know if it is just slotted in or is there any means of securing it in place? |
Posted By: JimC
Date Posted: 22 Mar 05 at 9:12am
They are fastened in place, but I can't recall how folk mostly do it, obviously I've never looked closely enough. |
Posted By: neilw
Date Posted: 22 Mar 05 at 10:07am
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I use a small door bolt to keep the cassette in place on my modern boat. My older boat has a Tufnol turnbuckle. ------------- |
Posted By: 5420
Date Posted: 22 Mar 05 at 3:13pm
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I think they usaluy use door bolts or thats what the canoe at my club uses anyway ------------- |
Posted By: redback
Date Posted: 22 Mar 05 at 5:09pm
| Some of the more recent designs have a stern hung rudder to cut out the complication. Have you noticed that they are small, that's becuase they don't have to penetrate the boundary between air and water, making them more efficient. |
Posted By: Blobby
Date Posted: 23 Mar 05 at 12:39am
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Thanks guys. |
Posted By: pro wannabe
Date Posted: 24 Mar 05 at 8:36pm
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jim c how do you do that little "soandso wrote" ------------- Your spinni aint as big as your mouth! |
Posted By: I luv Wight
Date Posted: 24 Mar 05 at 9:13pm
you press the "quote " button on top right like this.....
and look ! there it is ! |
Posted By: I luv Wight
Date Posted: 24 Mar 05 at 9:19pm
here's one i made earlier! ( for world champ AC in SF ? ) very skinny the fittings go on the top of the deck, with two tubes ( not shown) that are bonded to the the deck edges to support the top bearing. The idea being to get more leverage ( ie more distance between board and rudder ) when using the AC kite. 
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