I changed the title of this thread as it is something of a departure from the thread on rudder post gussets.
I resealed our rudder last spring. We didn’t have a leak, I did it as a preventative maintenance step. Ron Schryver recommended I do this about every 5 years. As part of the planning to do this I tried to recall how Ron coached me to perform this task when we bought SaSeaCat. That led me to think that it would be nice to have a library of procedures on how to perform maintenance activities such as this. Perhaps stored in the members section of the INA web site.
In any case, attached is a draft step by step procedure on how to renew the seal at the rudder post and hull joint.
Do you think it would be helpful to have a library of procedures ranging from engine maintenance (e.g. how to change fuel filters), to hull tasks such as this, to stepping and un-stepping the mast? The procedures could be submitted as drafts and then once a consensus is reached, uploaded to a new “Maintenance Procedures” folder on the INA website. Not sure who would be the arbiter deciding when a procedure is “good enough”.
Inserting pictures into the procedure is easily done. If people think this procedure is helpful, I could easily insert pictures I took when performing this task last spring and, with permission, pictures provided in this thread.
I had better not refer to my First Mate (read: Wife) as a Burly Assistant. Other than that I think this a great Step by Step description. Thank you very much Ed.
I changed the title of this thread as it is something of a departure from the thread on rudder post gussets.
I resealed our rudder last spring. We didn’t have a leak, I did it as a preventative maintenance step. Ron Schryver recommended I do this about every 5 years. As part of the planning to do this I tried to recall how Ron coached me to perform this task when we bought SaSeaCat. That led me to think that it would be nice to have a library of procedures on how to perform maintenance activities such as this. Perhaps stored in the members section of the INA web site.
In any case, attached is a draft step by step procedure on how to renew the seal at the rudder post and hull joint.
Do you think it would be helpful to have a library of procedures ranging from engine maintenance (e.g. how to change fuel filters), to hull tasks such as this, to stepping and un-stepping the mast? The procedures could be submitted as drafts and then once a consensus is reached, uploaded to a new “Maintenance Procedures” folder on the INA website. Not sure who would be the arbiter deciding when a procedure is “good enough”.
Inserting pictures into the procedure is easily done. If people think this procedure is helpful, I could easily insert pictures I took when performing this task last spring and, with permission, pictures provided in this thread.
Currently there are a few articles available on the INA website. Once logged into the website members’ area under the Members pull down menu or in the blue breadcrumbs below the menu go to Maintenance. There you will find one document and a number of diagram on rudders. More relevant to this discussion go to Updates and read the article in the Winter 2003 issue of Update on the specific topic. It is actually titled Notes From S.Hills Maintenance Log, Knotty Cat. I saw this when scanning Updates to post to the website and kept a copy for our own maintenance of Purrfection. I also searched the Update Index (now available on the website) and found rudder related articles in the following Update issues: Fall 2012, Fall 2006, and Fall 2000.
As mentioned in my other post today we are looking for member support in extracting past maintenance information from past issues of Update and having this information indexed and available in a Maintenance folder on the website. Anyone interested in this winter works project let me know at ina@nonsuch.org
