On 2008-06-06 03:47:50 -0400, "Dennis Pogson"
said:

wrote:
http://www.hometownannapolis.com/cgi...8/06_03-29/TOP

Fred

Also a mystery is where all the water was coming from, unless the
rudder had actually broken off at the stock.

My "read" is that's what happened. A slight chance is that the broken
rudder punched a different hole in the hull, but it sounds like the
water was coming in at the rudder shaft's entry. That they were
swinging back and forth tells me they had no effective control over the
rudder. (We got towed in sans our rudder last season, a scary ride in
the 4' waves we had at the time.)

I'm a bit surprised that they couldn't put something in that hole to
slow the flow, but I can accept that it wasn't possible for some
reason, possibly because they seemed to do everything else pretty right.

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Jere Lull
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