Posted by Laurence Monkhouse on February 09, 2004 at 18:20:06 from 217.137.106.56 user Laurence_.
In Reply to: Re: Swallow's tiller fittings posted by John Nichols on February 09, 2004 at 17:48:09:
Very hard to say.
Most of the dinghies and small yachts with transoms that I know have a pintle a couple of inches long at the bottom of the transom and a gudgeon at the top. The rudder itself then has a gudgeon at the bottom, usually incorporating long straps going most of the width of the rudder and a rather longer pintle at the top. When you ship the rudder you can get the top pintle in first and it is then easier to get the bottom one in.
But this is not invariable and may be a post war development. In SW WIZARD's rudder "in an ordinary way swung on two pintles which dropped into gudgeons" on the transom, This implies that AR considered this arrangement normal, and could be evidence that SWALLOW was fitted this way. Does anybody know how AMAZON's rudder is fitted?
My present rudder has the long rod arrangement and it is an utter pain. Another modern 'improvement' which is a mighty backward step.
'The Making of the Broads' was indeed the authoritative book which changed everybody's perception of how Broadland was created. I was at Cambridge reading Geography at the time, and remember that it caused quite a stir. The book also shows from tithe maps and other evidence how quickly the area of individual Broads have filled in during the past couple of centuries, which is a problem that is going to have to be resolved in the fairly near future.