On Feb 26, 10:34*am, "Roger Long" wrote:
The recent rescue of the British couple has put emergency steering *firmly
on my radar screen. *I have three different ways to turn my rudder stock but
there is still the issue of internal failure at the weld where the internal
steel plates attach to the stock. *This simple expedient will give me
something to work with if that should ever happen.

http://www.rogerlongboats.com/09Misc.htm#Hole

My rudder is configured so that internal failure will probably leave it
still attached to the boat.

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Roger Long

Greetings Roger,

Good ideal.

I have some friends who took off several years ago cruising. The
first major repair was just what you described. He has a P-40 and the
steel frame welded to a stainless shaft in the rudder corroded out
leaving the glass skin spinning on the stock.

http://www.synamaste.com/Log%20Pages...y%20Marina.htm

Water dripping out of a rudder give me the willies, recipe for
disaster.

Joe