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Made a Winch Handle from 3/8" x 1-3/4" aluminum 8 17 13
Traveler and step built and added August 18 2013
10 27 13 Preparing to Launch Williams Bay
1975 Venture 25 Stock Rudder before modification.
Rudder after cuts and holes drilled.
Rudder showing angle cut in top section, allowing the lower section to also angle more upward. I think a little safer traveling down the road. Seven small holes in top section to mount plates and one larger hole in lower section for the pivot bolt.
Aluminum plates 3/16" x 11-1/4" wide (at the bottom) x 18" high, cut with an electric hand jig saw in about 20 minutes. Used cut off material to make bracket for push down rod. A bolt in lower section holds a steel cable running back between plates up through pintle brackets (changed to 1/4" line above water line) to pulley under tiller, forward to self releasing clam cleat also under side of tiller.
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