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
      5·
      5 months ago

      This happened mid sail, but we were fortunate enough to get a tow back to the dock and on a lift

      I’m glad it was this and not the mast

        • 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
            1·
            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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