[MHml] Cat Rudders Toed In?

[Paul Nudd]

Half a degree? You can measure that accurately?
If there is absolutely no play in the system the rudders should be 
parallel. If there is play and they are set up parallel then they will 
'flutter'. If set up with sufficient toe in to just take up all the play 
and end up parallel then all should be well.
Anyone with absolutely no play should be able to measure to that 
accuracy. Remember if you are saying half a degree off parallel then you 
must be able to measure to a quarter of a degree.
If adjustment is easy then adjust them on the move.
PN

Rita Kepner and John Matthiesen 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 Too
> 
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