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Jorge
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Initially Posted - 10/29/2001 : 21:25:06

On my second sail aboard Festish the rudder snapped in 2 at 11 pm, 3 miles away from the marina. I got back fine with the outboard, not what I had planned. I recovered the bottom half, still hanging by the torn fiberglass. It turns out, this rudder was a

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eric.werkowitz
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Response Posted - 10/29/2001 : 21:54:37

Jorge,

I snapped the blade rudder on my '85 a couple years ago. It broke straight across at the lower pintle. It was made with a clamshell fiberglass exterior around a high density foam core.

I made a new one from plywood and fiberglass. It's a

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Jorge
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Response Posted - 10/29/2001 : 23:08:07

Eric,
the company that made the rudder was called Foss Foam Products of Florida, so I guess that's where the Foss fiberglass and urethane rudder came from. You had the same kind of rudder I had, and curiously enough, both broke straight across the lower

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eric.werkowitz
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Response Posted - 10/30/2001 : 20:31:36

Jorge,

I'm pretty sure mine was original. Other posts indicate that this was the construction technique for some time. If I remember correctly, Catalina might have used a different technique on the early models. At least some of the owners thought t

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sshaw
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Response Posted - 10/31/2001 : 11:56:23

I have a 1978 FK and the rudder I have definately has a plywood core. It had a substantial crack when I got the boat and in the process of fixing it I went deep into the rudder. It had a plywood core covered with foam then fiberglass and finally gelcoat

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jwilliams
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Response Posted - 11/01/2001 : 11:11:23

Hey guys,

My homebuilt new-style rudder snapped off at the waterline.

No harm, no foul, because my construction skills with wood gluing, shaping and fiberglass was crappy. I really built it to see if I could and if the new shape was that much bette

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Jorge
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Response Posted - 11/02/2001 : 22:05:31

I will attempt to restore the broken rudder. The plan is to grind and epoxy both halves, then reinforce on each side with a 3 ft by 1 ft. stainless plate. Bolt the plates down, and re-glass the blade, covering the stainless plates. I am getting some profe

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Bristle
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Response Posted - 11/03/2001 : 15:45:27

Sounds like yours will be stronger than the rest of ours... Just make sure it ends up wider than it is thick. <img src=icon_smile_wink.gif border=0 align=middle>

Dave Bristle, 1985 C-25 SR-FK #5032 in CT

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