Open 5.70 engine mount Date(s): November 2013. Album by Euan. Photos by Euan. 1 - 36 of 36 Total. 358 Visits.
enlarge 94KB, 575x1024 1 2012, November You break the rudder on your new boat. You research it and discover it's a recognised weak point on the Mark 1, and order the re-designed Mark 2 system.
enlarge 75KB, 1152x647 2 2013, spring ... which arrives broken. For ~1,500 Euros!
enlarge 74KB, 580x1024 3 2013-11-17 15.23.46 You break the old rudders again. But not in the same place you broke them before. Or in the same place the previous owner broke them.
enlarge 107KB, 580x1024 4 2013-11-17 15.56.56 So now you'll have to get round to fitting the new system, which will stop you using the engine mount, which is why you've not gotten round to it yet. Because...
enlarge 170KB, 1152x652 5 2013-11-18 15.38.41 The maker's solution is to move the engine mounting point 7" to the right. To a place that you need to reinforce behind. Through an ugly great black 12" inspection hatch that you cut into your lovely, watertight monocoque deck.
enlarge 173KB, 580x1024 6 2013-11-18 15.39.31 Which will also put the engine mount above the new steering gear, so that if it ever broke off it'd take out the steering too - just what you want when you've lost your engine.
enlarge 138KB, 1152x652 17 PIC000089 Anyway you fit the new rudder.
enlarge 187KB, 759x1024 18 IMG00006 In the meantime you break and repair the trailer...
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enlarge 150KB, 1152x652 22 2013-12-12 15.53.44 ... and with a bit of measuring...
enlarge 73KB, 580x1024 23 2013-12-12 16.18.48 (and re-engineering the maker's new rudders, the faults in which are a good bit more more than skin deep)
