Thanks Turbo,
The more picture albums of different setups for the same boat the better. It's a great way to get ideas and understand that there isn't always a 'correct' way to do things! Besides sometimes you need to see something from a particular angle before you understand it. I wish I would have had more pictures to look at when I first started rigging my boat, would have saved a lot of headache.
would have saved a lot of headache.
That's called 'learning'. =)
4)There was a better pull up system on the rudder than a bungee cord that is next to impossible to replace
Golfdad, I replaced my pull-up bungee with a line that is cleated just behind the auto-release. Works well that way. I now have a red line and a green one, release the red line and pull the green one for Up, and release the green line and pull the red line for down. Doesn't get much easier unless you are a fan of big bulky expensive cams (I'm not).
When I first got my 5.8 the bungees would not pull the rudders all the way up. This caused problems when pulled up on the beach. Waves would knock the rudders around and you could not slide the boat backwards on the sand with out them digging in. So after I replaced the bungees they would pull all the way up. This caused a worse problem. Sailing in these shallow bays I would hit a sand bar, the rudders would come all the way up and now NO STEERING. Replacing the bungee with a pull up line fixed both problems.