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Date Posted: - Friday - 07/14/06 - 9:20pm
Author: Randall
Subject: So, what'd you do, Anthony?
In reply to: Randall 's message, "Why would you need to?" on - Tuesday - 05/ 2/06 - 10:09pm

Anthony, I've been meaning to write back for a while to inquire. I also wanted to say that after your post and my reply, I saw several vintage boats (the likes of an old Pearson Wanderer, for example) with wooden rudders that HAD BEEN glassed over years ago.

None of them were blistered exceptionally as I thought they might be. On the one boat where the sheathing was intact, there were small blisters, but no more so than on the rest of the hull. Most often the rudders had areas where the glass had delamed and been pulled off altogether by the rush of water. Even the ones without delam were dripping.

So, it was clear that wrapping the rudder didn't cause damage, but I'm still hard pressed to see the benefit.

Some old boats in the yard have rudders on which the wood has begun to seperate along the grain, and sometimes by a wide margin. My bet is that sheathing is intended to add strength to an area that may be weakened by this. But given what I saw, keeping the sheething in tact seems to be a challange over time.

RR

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