Hi, As someone kindly pointed out a balanced rudder makes rudder forces smaller, so I was thinking that my modified rudder was balanced, but eventually I found out that the rudder hit the rubber "bulb", on the hull, under the hinge on my Klepper, thus preventing it from folding fully forward. So I modified it last night, increasing the lower cut-out a lot, and did some fine tuning of the hinge slot and the rudder blade radius inside the hinge. For those interested, here's an URL: http://foldingkayaks.org/gallery/Rudder-modifications The rest of the rudder mods can be found in http://foldingkayaks.org/gallery/Outboard and http://foldingkayaks.org/gallery/Tiller Some album tidying has been done, too! Tord *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
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