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Jan,
Sorry to hear about your rudder!
Steve Seals <<a href="http://www.sealsspars.com/s22catalog.html" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; color: rgb(51, 51, 102); ">http://www.sealsspars.com/s22catalog.html</a>> sells new ones.
My current marina, Coyote Point in San Mateo, has 2 Tunas they are putting up for Lien Sale in July. You could likely buy one of those whole boats for less than a new rudder.</pre><pre style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word; font: normal normal normal 1em/130% Monaco, 'Lucida Console', consolas, monospace; font-family: Monaco, 'Lucida Console', consolas; ">
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Of course, based on the other replies, you might still want to start w/ a new post.
Good luck!
gb
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Greg Biggers
Hull 491 "Pearly J"</pre></span><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 12:56 PM, Nancy & Pat Broderick <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:broderic@sonic.net">broderic@sonic.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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Steve,<div><br></div><div>It is stainless. It is prone to corrosion. If you've got enough to look (even "look") like a hole all the way through, my judgement would be a new rudder sooner rather than later. Without an expensive exam there's no way to know how far things have gone.</div>
<div><br></div><div>And you're right, they will fail when you need them most because that's usually when they're being asked to steer in high winds and currents. </div><div><br></div><div>Pat</div><div>ex-Elaine<br>
<div><br><div><div>On Jun 10, 2009, at 8:10 AM, Steve wrote:</div><br><blockquote type="cite"> <div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font size="4" face="Tahoma">The rudder post is a Stainless steel pipe and it appears to be prone to crevice corrosion. </font></span><span><font size="4" face="Tahoma">I just pulled mine and cleaned up the post with naval jelly. While </font></span><span><font size="4" face="Tahoma">I still have a lot of pipe left, the crevice corrosion was </font></span><span><font size="4" face="Tahoma">about to pop a hole the pipe. which would allow saltwater into the post and into the rudder. I have decided to clean, fill with epoxy, surface the pipe, and then start a policy annual inspection.</font></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font size="4" face="Tahoma"></font></span> </div> <div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font size="4" face="Tahoma"> </font><div dir="ltr" align="left"><font size="4" face="Tahoma"><span><font size="4" face="Tahoma">Perhaps all these older rudders ought to be pulled </font></span><span><font size="4" face="Tahoma">and inspected annually. I suspect t</font></span></font><span><font size="4" face="Tahoma">hey will tend fail when you need them the most.</font></span></div>
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