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Re: Kayak rudder
Posted By: lee In Response To: Kayak rudder (Timothy Dwyer)
Date: Tuesday, 21 December 1999, at 8:10 p.m.
an aluminum skeg from necky ,$35, can be configured into a rudder if the stern is low either way it's an easy assemblage of brackets and small rudder. the cable attachements are set close together so it will only take about 1/2" of cable movement for 30degrees of rudder,it also can lift straight back out of the water, I put one on a patuxent the day before a citizens race. the boat was ready, I wasn't. The rudder made a big difference but was small compared to a conventional feathercraft,so the boat was easy to pivot but had just enough tracking to be manageable. a tiller,pivoting footpegs,anything but sliding footbraces. I made a 2" tiller made out of 2" piece of the end of the boat,stuck through deck about 6" in front of coaming. I'd turn it like a knob, pretty linear dialing. worked
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