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Have just taken delivery of a uni-foil kick up rudder from CD - the one with the gas strut. The boat is still in the yard for a few more weeks so won't be able to try it out yet! Has anyone else got one? If so how does it perform? I decided to change as the one the PO had put on it had a steel structure connected to the tiller which looked like a section of a girder bridge. The rudder blade was a solid slab of wood sheathed in fiberglass - very heavy and not very straight! Sailorbaz
Sailorbaz 1981 Boomaroo 25, (C25) SK/SR, inboard diesel, Red Robin South coast, New South Wales, Australia
I had the fixed version of that rudder on my Catalina 25.
It performed pretty well. My only complaint is that the chord length (front to back dimension) is much shorter than other Catalina 25 rudders and I found it to stall earlier than I desired. Keep the tiller in the center of the range and you'll do fine. When extremely overpowered (major gust) you'll need to dump the main to fight strong weather helm, you can't only use a lot of rudder. Doing that is faster anyway, so it isn't a bad skill to develop.
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