Egad!!! Is that the freaking enormous one that's six and a half feet long and weighs about 90 pounds? Probably not. That's probably the unit I took to Hawaii.
That was fun to make, laminating the doorskins to make a cassette around an extremely low-tech rudder.
Pat, do you have pictures? They might instill a dose of budget-conscious reality into this conversation. I mean, if someones goal is to win the thing, and they have $$ to burn or serious composite skills, then by all means build / buy a killer carbon composite e-rudder.
My goals were:
1. to finish
2. to finish with a smile on my face (not freaking miserable)
3. to not be last
For that, I needed a rudder that would steer the boat and would be able to do so for several days via the autopilot. That doesn't take $3,000.
Last edited by AlanH; 01-17-2017 at 05:05 PM.
1968 Selmer Series 9 B-flat and A clarinets
1962 Buesher "Aristocrat" tenor saxophone
Piper One Design 24, Hull #35; "Alpha"