Last spring I purchased a C&C 29 mark 2 - hull 693 built in Rhode Island.
During the survey, it was noted that the rudder was "bent" about 5 cm to port. I have stripped the bottom this spring and it appears that there is no damage to the rudder so I began wondering how it could be bent without any mechanical damage. Yesterday, I did a few measurements on the boat. I was a bit shocked to find that the large rudder bushing in the cockpit floor is off centre about 1 cm to the starboard side. Based on this, I have concluded that C&C screwed up when they built the boat and that the rudder tube was not plumb when moulded into the boat. If you consider the top bushing offset to starboard by 1 cm this translates +/- to a 5 cm rudder offset to port at the rudder tip. I am assuming that this is virtually impossible to repair without tearing the whole stern apart (cockpit floor, stern tube.....) Is this assumption correct or could this issue be corrected by moving the bushing in the cockpit floor? I imagine that this would not work because the bushing would have to line up with the top end of the rudder tube????? Any thoughts, comments, suggestions about this issue? Are there any significant performance implications if racing the boat with the rudder canted to port? Best regards, Bob Hickson, P. Eng, RHI, CEA C&C 29-2 Flying Colours Frenchman's Bay Yacht Club Pickering, ON (416) 919-2297 <mailto:bobhick...@rogers.com> bobhick...@rogers.com ~~~~ __/) ~~~~
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