[MHml] Cat Rudders Toed In?

[kenny mclain]

Did you actually check the alignment of the rudders
with the hulls when both tillers are proportionally
offfset to the inside? 

My conser 40 Catamaran has the tillers offset inward 
on both sides when the rudders are parallel. the
rudder post holes also are slightly offset when the
rudders are parallel to the hulls.The offset tiller
allows more room for  a better body/hand relationship
to the tiller when in the cockpit. Good Luck.

Kenny McLain
MISTRAL Conser C-40


--- Rita Kepner and John Matthiesen <lynx at olympus.net>
wrote:

> 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
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