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Rudder Heel Bearing
clearly I need a new rudder heel bearing - so I am going to ATTEMPT to build a foundry and cast my own.
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Comment by bob mitchell on January 5, 2014 at 4:53am
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My impression was that the "post" that sticks up through the rudder post tube, and that the tiller or steering arm connects to, was also called the "rudder post" as well. And that the bottom end of that terminates in the "shoe". But after research in the Nomenclature of Navel Vessels, I realize I was mistaken.
RUDDER POST See Stern post The main vertical post in the stern frame upon which the rudder is hung. Also called the Rudder Post.
.RUDDER STOCK A vertical shaft having a rudder attached to its lower end and having a yoke, quadrant, or tiller fitted to its upper portion by which it may be turned.
So in reality, coming from my way of thinking, I should have said the "rudder stock shoe" - not that that is the standard name. I could not resist looking in a few of my favorite books - Bud McIntosh states " the heel of the rudder must sit tightly upon an extension of the deadwood, or in some sort of heel bearing" page 221.
And Chapelle does talk about a "heel strap" (162) ( Not an actual bearing, but a strap in the location of the rudder "heel"). Steward talks about a "heel fitting" (fig 16-11, page 209)
So I guess I might go with "rudder heel bearing" as being a fairly informative description.
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Comment by Clyde A. Phillips on January 4, 2014 at 10:51pm
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Gee, I used to know what we called them, but this old guy's memory takes a while to warm up and get going. I'll do some research in my pile of Newporter stuff and see if I can run across its name. A rudder post is the vertical usually square piece of the deadwood just ahead of the rudder (and is the after vertical edge of the deadwood); it goes from the shoe (long member at the bottom of the deadwood/keel and sticks out aft beyond the deadwood) up to the horn timber (the apron aft of the deadwood on a Newporter). Rudder shoe is what just hit me as the name of that bronze piece. It is a socket for the bottom of the rudder stock to pivot in. I will confirm or reject that name later.
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If anyone has a different name I am certainly willing to consider calling The rudder post shoe by some other nomenclature.
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