[MHml] Cat Rudders Toed In?

Rita Kepner and John Matthiesen lynx at olympus.net
Sat Sep 2 02:14:23 EST 2006


List Friends,  
    Our new to us 35' Cat (designer unknown) appears to have both rudders toed in about half a degree from parallel.  Is this a normal thing with cats or a builder's mistake?  My experience is with trimarans and I would think they should be parallel with the centerline of the hulls.  The rudders are a tapered NACA 0012 foil with the shaft at 25% of the chord.  I'm reattaching the tiller crossbar at the ends of the tillers, and it is 1 1/2" shorter (center of tiller hole to hole) than the rudder shafts are (14' center to center)  The tillers are 58" long.
Thanks for any advise!,  John Matthiesen, Sugaree Too
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