Sailing Reverie - New ways to fix old things - Rudder Rebuild & Restoration Update

Rudder repair continues. As you know our #rudder was hanging by a string, or better said by two little pieces of solder. This is significant rudder damage. So we had to remove it from the #sailboat and have it split in half to see what was wrong and whether we could fix it or not. The challenge with this type of project is finding someone local who could do the work. Reason you want someone local is because if you need to make adjustments; and more than likely you will...; you want someone who is within driving distance. Otherwise you will be shipping that rudder back and forth until they get it just right. Lucky for me I found Tim Smith over at Sarasota Marine Services and had Harry Weaver who is a magician with steel and fiberglass to work on our rudder and he helped is with other aspects of our sailboat restoration. In our last video you saw that we had to use a chain saw to split the rudder because it was not foam filled. Instead we found that #pearson used Fiberglass Chop and resin to build their rudders. This makes the rudder strong and it is great as long as you do not have to do a repair. So Harry went to work on the steel construction. He made the rudder plate larger and reinforce the constructions with 3 gossets that run on both side of the rudder plate to give it more strength and eliminate flex. He also discover water intrusion into the rudder so he is filling the voids with resin to remove all air bubbles from the interior of the rudder and also to rebuild the material that was removed during the process of splitting the rudder. Harry also shows us how extensive the damage can be when your have improperly grounded shore power. It could really destroy all of the metal components of your boat. Check it out! Please subscribe to the channel to see our other videos and all of the refit work we are doing for Reverie our 1985 Pearson 34 sailboat. Thank you for watching. Video Equipment Used - Iphone XMAX - https://amzn.to/37D3IZk - Video Editing: Camtasia 2020 - https://techsmith.z6rjha.net/j0LQZ