21. Making a New Rudder Part 2. Wooden Boat Restoration.
Channel: SV Andromeda
Date: 2021-03-05

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In this episode I talk through some of the joinery and processes involved in making Andromeda's new rudder. During this process I had some lengthy conversations with Leo over at Sampson Boat Co, if you haven't seen his channel then I would definitely recommend it, we chatted about some of the options available and different ways to approach the old rudder and I opted to make a whole new rudder blade in the end. At the rate he's going he will soon be up to this stage as well!

This is quite a big rudder for a 27ft boat and something I can just about lift on my own, the wood is hardwood around 2 inches thick and I laminated this wood into 12 strips, drilled them and then through bolted them with stainless threaded rod and ran into some problems along the way. There are an additional two half inch diameter rods either bronze or brass. This is the latest progress on this rudder so before I approach the gudgeons and lining them up it would be great to get some advice and thoughts on how to do this. My brother has suggested using a length of 15mm copper pipe through both gudgeons at once to ensure they are lined up, I think this is a good idea but I'm struggling to find information on how this would have been approached traditionally.

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Music:
Jason Shaw - Acoustic Blues
Krackatoa - Noahs Stark

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