I took the boat out for its first sail this year and lost the rudder.

Do you guys think this is reparable or am I buying a new boat? It’d be a shame to lose her over something so stupid

    • Koopa_Khan@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      2·
      5 months ago

      I wish I could tell you.

      My best guess is that the pin bounced out when i was trying to help my wife uncleat the jib and the pressure just ripped the rudder right off. It was just a perfect storm of a large wind gust, waves, and a hardware failure

      • Paragone@lemmy.worldEnglish
        21·
        5 months ago

        You forgot too-flimsy engineering for the conditions.

        c a marchaj & Dave Gerr both spoke against too-flimsy engineering, & the industry generally doesn’t care ( boats which disappear don’t make headlines: only ones noticed to be disappearing do, right? )

        That boat needs to, if fixed, NEVER go into conditions as rough as what it was in.

        It may well have been oversold/under-engineered for what the marketing said it was for.

        Please consider investing in both Dave Gerr’s “Elements of Boat Strength” & a book named “Surveying Yachts And Small Craft”,

        and then earn enough understanding to figure out how sound your boat is.

        Those 2 books cost drastically less than a new boat, & they’ll help you in any future boat-purchases you make, too.

        Warning, though: nearly no boats are up to Gerr’s scantlings ( thicknesses of different areas of a hull, for all who haven’t been dredged through boatish lingo before ).

        ( other authors worth investing-in: Nigel Calder & Tom Cunliffe )

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