Now its time for a change in material. It’s iron work we need with the help of our faithful stove and the gas torch its making the sailing gear and the rudder fittings, lots of heat, the anvil and big hammers.
We make three large sailing hooks, two fixing points and two shroud plates.
Two plates to fit on the rudder with long pins, these are always about 9 inches long the reason being you don’t want the rudder to jump out the eye plates in bad weather. A plate for the bottom pin to fit through will be bolted through the base of the horseshoe and on the inside of these bolts a plate with a ring welded on to take the stern mooring ropes.
The top pin on the rudder goes through the back edge of the oak scut.
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