For anyone who might have seen this posting in December here is an update of my progress. The quadrant bolts were loose when checked with a torque wrench at 150 "/#s. When I loosened the bolts further I was able to move the quadrant on the rudder shaft approximately 1-2"'s measured at the stern end of the rudder. given the way it stooped at the ends of that travel it appears that the quadrant is pinned to the shaft and the travel was just the tolerance in the parts. I moved the rudder saft to the desitered end of the travel and re-torqued the quadrant bolts. I was no longer able to move the quadrant on the shaft. My conlusion is that the saft moved under load in heavy weather due to the loose bolts. However, my rudder still only moves 28 degrees to port and far more to starboard. The emergency rudder pin is still off boat centerline. I can only conclude that the pins were installed off the centerline at the factory. As you may recall the factory indicated that the pins would not necessarily be on the centerline. It appears the only way to correct this condition would be to remove the rudder assembly and re-pin the rudder shaft. I would have to question the integrity of the shaft at that point, so I may just live with the condition or modify the stop block to allow more travel in the port direction. At some point I have to question the amount of cable engagement which is left as the quadrant continues to rotate beyond it's design angle. Hopefully this is a situation unique to my boat. Bill