Pearson 34 Sailboat PROBLEM: Shoe & Rudder Restoration

On this video you get a chance to see what is inside the rudder of our 1985 Pearson 34 #sailboat Reverie. This is all part of our sailboat restoration project. I took the #rudder to Sarasota Marine Services in Sarasota, FL where Tim Smith is helping me figure out how to do this rudder repair. The first part of the job was to split the rudder in half to see what is going on inside. This reveal a whole lot of rudder problems. The rudder was extremely hard to split so the gang at Sarasota Marine had to use a chainsaw to #split the rudder. Reason being that the rudder construction is not foam. It was completely filled with Fiberglass Chop and Resin which made it extremely hard and difficult to split and it is going to make for an interesting repair. Once they opened it, we found out that the only thing keeping the rudder together was a little bit of solter that was left holding the rudder post to the rudder plate. In the video you will have a chance to have a good look at the construction of the rudder. A rudder this hard is heavy and will make the rudder able to take a hit and still keep on going. That said, we have to fix it in a way that is going to last. So we will find new ways to do old things. Hope you enjoy the video! Please subscribe to our channel to continue to view our refit of Reverie.