Kick up rudder cleat

Red plastic pins available from P&B website - a  must for any pond sailor or anywhere with shallows.  Used on 505 and Osprey - I have 2 pins on a very thin piece of rope, then if one goes - I can use the 2nd pin and still get home with  the transom still nicely hanging on at the back of the boat!Yep - fixed rudders are all great, but on a pond - I don't think so!!

^ If only that used a magnet instead of the string...

Red "crayons" (shear pins) through the blade and stock are alive and well.  I use them on both my Europe rudders and prefer them to the kick up clamcleat I have on the N12.  I keep a spare in my BA but have never actually needed it.

Originally posted by turnturtle Originally posted by getafix Anyone else remember those red 'crayons' that used to go into 420 rudders in the late 80's / early 90's? They were pretty effective in use but a nightmare in the boat park at school sailing regattas where yours' invariably went "walk about" after the 1st or 2nd day if left in the boat over night yep- I carried a stash of golf tees in my sailing bag back then.....

Wish I'd thought of using tees. I bought a length of plastic rod from a modelling shop but it was cr4p - nowhere near tough enough.

Thanks DavidYot, duly ordered, it screwed my race last night, got water called on the start line and forced over, so had to dip the line, then proceed to thump the wreck and about every sand spit on the lake chasing the increasingly Jammy Jack in the other Solution and just as I reeled him in the rope snapped it took me a couple of minutes and a leg of weather helm to think about tightening the screw on the downwind leg. I never did get him..