Building a New Rudder

[Capt. Flak]

I had the same question. I have been following your construction closely, in case I ever wanted to do this myself. But, I have thought the the rudder looked to be too long. I thought it was just the pictures that distorted the look.

Joe Walter #24

[Ben Diss]

Um, huh? 3.5" Wazat? Max size? Oh, I'm sure it's exactly 3.5" (cough, cough).

[Ben Diss]

Here it is, the final product. As you can see I completely neglected the class limit of 3.5". I did read Wells and I did read the class rules, but obviously I didn't remember what I read. It's a nice rudder, but it'll have to go.

There are a couple of things that I don't like about this one anyway. Take a look at the shape. I don't really care for the bottom edge.

[Ben Diss]

Here's another pic that shows what I mean. It doesn't follow the bottom of the keel very well.




It's also not as perfectly shaped as I like. With this last pic I tried to show how the trailing edge is not perfectly straight. I'm not sure this really shows it well.

[Ben Diss]

So, I'll try again. The next one should go a little quicker. I may make a few changes as well.

Here's the new thread:

http://www.ec12.com/discussion/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=244