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First sail of the season (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 weeks ago by Koopa_Khan to c/sailing

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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

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[–] Guest_User 13 points 4 weeks ago (14 children)

Luckily it was outside the environment when this occurred

[–] Koopa_Khan 6 points 4 weeks ago (11 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago (7 children)

Oof! That sounds exciting. What took the rudder off?

[–] Koopa_Khan 2 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I hope you get it fixed and back on the water soon.

[–] Koopa_Khan 2 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Thank you sbv!

[–] Guest_User 2 points 4 weeks ago

Hope you can get it fixed and enjoy the water!

[–] Paragone 0 points 4 weeks 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 ).