Picture 3.21 Jib Sheets
3.8 The Rudder
To complete this section, you will require:
• The rudder
• The rudder stock
• The rudder downhaul and block
1. Undo the plastic wing nut on the rudder stock and remove the bolt.
2. Slide the rudder into the stock, making sure to feed the rope & rudder
down haul block over the small roller fitted in the stock, and out under
the tiller.
3. Line up the hole in the rudder with the hole in the rudder stock.
4. Push the bolt through the stock and the rudder. Make sure that the
head of the bolt lines up with the recess in the plastic washer, and that
the little lugs on the plastic washer line up with the holes in the stock. It
may need a little tap to get it through!
5. Refit the plastic wing nut and tighten. The nut should be tight enough to
stop the rudder slopping about in the stock, but not so tight that it is
hard to rotate the rudder.
6. Take the rudder downhaul rope and, using a bowline, tie one end to the
cleat at the front end of the tiller.
7. Thread the other end through the rudder downhaul block and then back
through the cleat (see picture 3.23).
8. Tie a figure-of-eight knot in the end.
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