Uncovering a disaster - Why we decided to rebuild the rudder on our sailboat
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- Опубліковано 1 вер 2023
- Have you ever wondered what the inside of your rudder might look like?
Well, we decided to open our wet rudder, and it wasn't pretty....
This is why we decided to do it, and how we went about rebuilding it again.
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All music for the video was provided by Josh Woodward.
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Rudder project materials list:
West System:
105 Epoxy resin
205 (fast setting) Hardener
206 (slow setting) Hardener
406 Colloidal Silica
Expanding Epoxy Foam:
Sicomin PB250 resin
Sicomin DM02 hardener
Fibreglass Lay-Up Schedule:
Internal:-
Combination 225/450
Biaxial 450
Cross Weave 450
Biaxial 450
Cross Weave 450
Biaxial 450
Cross Weave 450
External:-
Chopped Strand 600
Biaxial 450
Cross Weave 450
Biaxial 450
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Beautiful job. I did a similar repair last year and at that time there was no video like this showing how it should be done. This will be useful to many in the future.
Thanks, it’s one of the reasons we filmed the process as when we started to look at our options we also noticed not many rudder rebuild videos out there.
We thought it might be useful for others with the same dilemma.
Apart from Mads at Sail Life.😉
These two rudder videos will be a GREAT help to me as I take on a similar project with my 35 year old rudder this winter. Really REALLY nice work.
I'm suddenly happy we have a solid steel rudder on our colvic :) Great video thanks
Excellent job, well done and so relieved you went the whole hog. Just think, that apprentice in '87 is probably a supervisor or manager now.......🤦.
Nice work Phantom Marine (Carl) for stepping up. Shame that there are petty folk out there spoiling it for the others...... Keep it up
Thanks. This was helpful
Excellent job 👍
Thanks for sharing for a thoroughly description and footage of the process to repair a frequently occurring problem with polyester rudders
Glad to see you doing a proper repair. This is a good example of why you never is 2 part polyurethane foam on a boat.
Really good example of doing a job right the and not taking the easy option. Fascinating to see how the rudder was constructed all them years ago.
Hiya, Great job done. D is not the same🙂
Thanks, don’t worry on our way back soon !
Very interesting, iv always wondered what the inside of my rudder would look like !
Great instructional video. Thank you. Cant wait for more. Very professional work.
Top quality job….very impressive.
Looked like a really nice job. Well done. It also looked like the advice you got to just drain the rudder and put it back on the boat was not very good advice. I guess free advice is worth every penny you pay for it.
Thank you for posting such quality videos! Very informative. Fair winds, sail safe. BR from Norway.
What an amazing job guys, inspirational! Hope to catch up over the winter.
Your workmanship is outstanding. Looking forward to more. Subscribed with notifications on and a thumbs up.
Flippin great job on that rudder guys! Kudos
That was truly excellent in all respects - quality intelligent work. Hope the boatyard told you who the whiner was.😉
There always has to be some a hole whiner ruin your set-up. Good on you to find an alternate plan.
I never understood why a rudder would need a core. Why not use solid fiberglass from the beginning?
Hi there. My understanding is, it's a cost, weight and time to build factor. if this rudder had no core and was made exclusively from fibreglass and resin then it would weight an extra 55kg, cost hundreds of £$€ extra in materials and it'd take weeks longer to lay-up that many layers. So, again more cost.
There are minimum structural strength standards set by ISO that designers adhere to, based on the size and intended purpose of the boat. So, usually as long as the design meets these, it's not deemed to be necessary to exceed them by any significant factor.
Great Job! How did you know which side of the rudder the shaft was bonded to? You obviously opened the other one, or was it just pure guess? 😅 thank you!
To be honest we had no idea of how the internal structure was made up and it was just pure luck we opened it on the correct side.
It would have still been possible if we had gone the other way but being lucky certainly made the rebuild easier.
I did wonder about that too 😮
Fantastic videos what is your home port? Im from Norwich but my boat is in Southend
Hiraeth doesn’t really have a home port although we’ve spent the last few winters in Ardrossan.
Great video. Just sorry to hear that just like here in the US you have crybaby jealous democrats whining about fairness and equity. Did he have green hair and a nose ring? Fair winds to you.
No, he had a red dunse cap and cried about losing.
24:20 jealousy, the root of all conflict.