Sorry that my first post is a question rather than an introduction...
I've owned this Citation 34 for a little over two years. Recently hauled her for a survey and found that the rudder moves freely from left to right. This is due to what appears to be loose screws/bolts in a bracket that holds the rudder to the keel. See the photo - red arrow.
So my questions:
How is this connected? What do the screws attach to? Is there a steel plate glassed inside that part of the keel where it attaches?
I've crawled around inside the aft lazarette and can't see where anything appears to show inside the hull - but I could have missed it I suppose... But it looks like keel to me, not hull.
Has anyone seen this, and if so, what's the fix?
I've owned this Citation 34 for a little over two years. Recently hauled her for a survey and found that the rudder moves freely from left to right. This is due to what appears to be loose screws/bolts in a bracket that holds the rudder to the keel. See the photo - red arrow.
So my questions:
How is this connected? What do the screws attach to? Is there a steel plate glassed inside that part of the keel where it attaches?
I've crawled around inside the aft lazarette and can't see where anything appears to show inside the hull - but I could have missed it I suppose... But it looks like keel to me, not hull.
Has anyone seen this, and if so, what's the fix?
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