I'm building a boat to a design by Paul Fisher of Selway Fisher Design in the UK. The design is called "Able" and her vital statistics are: overall length 4.88m (16ft), beam 2m (6ft 6in) and design weight is 360kg (790lbs). You can read more about this design at http://www.selway-fisher.com/OtherDB.htm#KANE.

I intend to procede more slowly with this boat than I did with either of my other boat building projects (see links below on the right). This is, after all, a hobby and there are other things to do. So, updates to this blog might happen once every week or two. Come back and see.

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Thursday 6 June 2013

Rudder Hardware

I wanted pintles and gudgeons that were more substantial than the ones that I could find in the chandleries. These are intended for small dinghies and probably work but they don't look very strong to me. I designed my own and had them made up from 316 stainless steel by a small company that specialises in marine stainless steel fabrication. Here they are, 25 x 5 mm flat strip bent to shape with a single long 10 mm diameter pin to ensure alignment of the hinges.


Nicely polished and I will drill the holes for fixing screws when I mount the hardware on the rudder.
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