I picked up a 1980, new to me Prindle 16. The seller removed the rudders and rudder castings as a whole unit before I had the boat shipped. I intalled the rudder units along with the tiller. Rudder system works great but I cant seem to unlock the rudders from the down position. Any help please. I am new to beach cats but grew up sailing a Catalina 25. I was going to dive into the problem today but was hoping for some direction first. I searched the topic but really couldn't find info on my specific issue

Jared

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Jared - Seattle,WA
1980 Prindle 16
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Mount the rudders onto the transom, have someone sit on the tramp and pull on the "up" line, that will lift the locking pin, same time you grab the rudder and pull, the lock bolt has been adjusted too far in, causing the rudders to lock in the down position. This method will work only if your rudder lines have been reaved correctly, check the above link for feeding the rudder lines.

Pull the down line and hold tension on it, before pulling the up line. This will compress the spring a bit more than pulling the up line alone, and allow the rudder to unlock more easily. You may have to mount them back on the transom first, as stated above.

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Rob
OKC
Pile of Nacra parts..
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jchrist

I picked up a 1980, new to me Prindle 16.
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Jared

Welcome to TheBeachcats.com Jared, and welcome to the-renovator as well, thanks for participating right away. See my signature for instructions on setting up your cool avatar and signature.

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Damon Linkous
1992 Hobie 18
Memphis, TN

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Thanks to Renovator for the phone call and help. I appreciate all the info and help with my problem.
Thanks to everyone else for the additional info and warm welcome!

Jared

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Jared - Seattle,WA
1980 Prindle 16
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I lost my cool avatar and sig at some point.. Any idea what happened?

DamonLinkous

jchrist

I picked up a 1980, new to me Prindle 16.
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Jared

Welcome to TheBeachcats.com Jared, and welcome to the-renovator as well, thanks for participating right away. See my signature for instructions on setting up your cool avatar and signature.

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Rob
OKC
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yurdle

I lost my cool avatar and sig at some point.. Any idea what happened?

No, have you tried to create them again? Don't know how they could just disappear, haven't heard that from anyone else. Let me know what happens when you do them again.

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Damon Linkous
1992 Hobie 18
Memphis, TN

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I added a sig after I noticed it. I did notice it on someone else...maybe Andrew? Don't remember for sure who it was. I'll add a pic one of these days. I've got no reason to think it was more than a one time deal.

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Rob
OKC
Pile of Nacra parts..
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I tried to change my profile pic several times a couple of weeks ago. Nothing seemed to work so I gave up. Several days later my new pic appeared as my avatar.

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Pull the down line and hold tension on it, before pulling the up line. This will compress the spring a bit more than pulling the up line alone, and allow the rudder to unlock more easily.

The springs on the Prindles are tension springs, not compression springs, the fact that he cannot break the rudder free by pulling on the bottom of the rudder indicates that the tension springs are working good and that the lock-bolt is in good condition, just needs to be adjusted out slightly to "relieve the tension"

Congrats on the b /b tags. I couldn't care less what you call the springs.

I've owned a Prindle, and I know that pulling both lines to raise a properly rigged, and tight, rudder works wonderfully.

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Rob
OKC
Pile of Nacra parts..
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too funny Rob.

"Pile of Nacra parts"

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Gordon
Nacra 5.5SL
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I was too lazy to put the strikeouts on the old boats when I put on the sig..I figured the 'pile' was more accurate anyway.

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Rob
OKC
Pile of Nacra parts..
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I uploaded a new avatar, and it said, "Congrats, here's your old avatar back!' Uhh..

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Rob
OKC
Pile of Nacra parts..
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yurdle

I uploaded a new avatar, and it said, "Congrats, here's your old avatar back!' Uhh..

When you go to Avatar Management you should see the Avatars that you have uploaded along with some generic ones. Usually just clicking on the Avatar you want switches to that one. Because of browser caching you might have to clear cache or restart your browser to see the difference.

There is also a link at the bottom of Avatar Management

Deactivate your avatar
If you don't want that an avatar is displayed for you, then please click here to clear your avatar.

Try clearing your avatar, restart the browser, go back and choose your avatar.

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Damon Linkous
1992 Hobie 18
Memphis, TN

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I bet I've been through 5 laptops/hard drives since I last uploaded an avatar. I seriously doubt it's a caching issue.

After uploading the new one, it said something like 'you have selected filenamexx.jpg as your avatar' in a message at the top, where filenamexx is whatever the name of my current avatar is . Looking through the list I saw all of the generic ones, as well as the one pic I had uploaded (my current avatar) prior to uploading the new avatar pic, which wasn't in the list. I'll go back and check and see if the new one appears in the list. Hope that helps.

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Rob
OKC
Pile of Nacra parts..
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WHA?? now it's the new pic.

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Rob
OKC
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Congrats on the b /b tags. I couldn't care less what you call the springs.

Well, blow me......down, is Rob of OKC having a little nancy-boy hissy-fit???



Edited by the-renovator on Oct 21, 2012 - 08:40 PM.