First off, thanks all for your helpful responses on my wife's post-sailing sea sickness. Looks like we'll be able to get that under control fairly easily. Our 20 year old O'Day 30 came complete with rudder that is a bit bent...slightly forward, as if the previous owner may have backed into a shoal, and maybe 7 degrees to starboard...as if the boat was on a steady, 20 year port tack. <G> While these bends do not interfere with the free movement of the rudder, and as a cruiser I am not worried about whatever slight loss of performance we may be experiencing in speed or in pointing, etc., the clearance between the forward top of the rudder and the hull could be a bit wider and it may be that one more backing into a shoal some day could lock it up under the hull. I don't feel any performance problems at the helm, although not having steered the boat with an intact rudder, I have no real baseline for the rudder's optimum performance. Having said all of that, any votes out there as to what kind of repair, if any, might be in the offing and potential cost? Any recommended yard or craftsman for this work in the Western Long Island Sound area also welcome? I'm thinking, even though I detect no performance problems, some day out there, when I want to sell the boat, a bent rudder will likely detur potential buyers or maybe disproportiantely detract from the value of the boat. On the other hand, if repair means bending the rudder back into shape and potentially fatiguing the rudder post to where we run the risk of losing it or suffering new bending out there, maybe leaving well enough alone makes sense. Any inputs would be welcome. Fair Winds, Jim