I need to relaminate my rudder but don't really want to pay for dry storage for the whole month while I do this. The boat is kept in the water year around. Has anyone ever pulled their rudder while in the water. From what I see, my worry would be that passing boat wakes would make water burp into the cockpit. I might just make a temporary plug for the whole to reduce this affect. Anybody see any problem of doing this? I can then take the rudder home to the workshop for a month to get it dried out and relaminated while the boat is not racking up storage charges in the dry yard. The diver x 2 is a lot less expensive than the dry storage.
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Should be OK
Phil, Sure seems to me that it would work. Just be aware of anything that could fall out of the rudder tube. If it is anything like my O'28, there is a nylon or similar material bushing that sits on top of the rudder and and up into the rudder shaft. Its is the bottom bearing for your rudder. Be sure that that comes off with the rudder or it might dissappear on you if left in place. PM
Phil, Sure seems to me that it would work. Just be aware of anything that could fall out of the rudder tube. If it is anything like my O'28, there is a nylon or similar material bushing that sits on top of the rudder and and up into the rudder shaft. Its is the bottom bearing for your rudder. Be sure that that comes off with the rudder or it might dissappear on you if left in place. PM
Pulling the rudder...
When I worked on my O28 rudder last Spring to replace the upper bearing, I failed to block the bottom (This was obviously on the hard), and the whole assembly slid quietly, slowly, harmlessly to the ground. Most Oday rudders are designed to float, and I had thought that the 27 rudder was transom-hung. Must be wrong. On the 28 there is also a sort of bearing assembly in the area between the hull and the cockpit penetration that contains the grease fitting for the tube, and I wonder if you have to deal with that as well. Good luck! Bill Coxe, O28/40, New London, CT
When I worked on my O28 rudder last Spring to replace the upper bearing, I failed to block the bottom (This was obviously on the hard), and the whole assembly slid quietly, slowly, harmlessly to the ground. Most Oday rudders are designed to float, and I had thought that the 27 rudder was transom-hung. Must be wrong. On the 28 there is also a sort of bearing assembly in the area between the hull and the cockpit penetration that contains the grease fitting for the tube, and I wonder if you have to deal with that as well. Good luck! Bill Coxe, O28/40, New London, CT
rudder pull while afloat
Thank you sirs, I will talk with my diver to see how confident he would be to capture the bearings. That is something I had not thought of.
Thank you sirs, I will talk with my diver to see how confident he would be to capture the bearings. That is something I had not thought of.
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