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Old 02-01-2008
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Originally Posted by Giulietta View Post
By the way...ours are the best !eheheheehe
"Best" at what?? Breaking? Snagging? Oh, you mean "fastest"? Okay, I'll grant you that.

Mine is "best" at going slow. And for driving over pot warps and "dead-heads" (erps knows what I mean).

Chuck Paine does a nice semi-balanced skeg hung rudder on some of his designs. Here's a photo where you can almost see the angle of the rudder post as it passes through the rudder, with a portion of the rudder area (about 30%) forward of the rudder post and the remainder trailing behind it:


Morris 32


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Last edited by JohnRPollard : 02-01-2008 at 09:04 PM. Reason: Swapped photos -- better close-up
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