Thursday, March 12, 2020

Rudder Building

A picture tells a thousand words.  So now I may say less?

Mark one, cut,  trace and cut,  then glue. The it needs to be shaped into a foil. I know foils from surfing and earlier bodywork.  But,  filling threat notch with 3kg off lead , I have no clue .
Next Stage: Foiling
 Roughed out with plane. (Showing  the notch on the trailing edge where lead is  let in. ) Thos allows  the rudder to stay down while underway. I read that  the builder of the Enigma 460 prototype simply used a rope  downhaul.  One of the Paradox's crowning glories is that she makes do with just four pieces of rope: main halyard, furler, mainsheet and rudder uphaul. Adding a rudder downhaul would seem to diminish the simplicity of it all.
Better with belt sander

I'm tempted to saying something pithy like "the ply does not lie". What that simply means sixth at the various layers of ply are great indicators of depth and fairness. Of a join on the ply is wave, your sanding is off. Great fun, till I ran put of petrol for my generator

To be continued....

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