Service Your Hobie Rudders

Joe, enjoyed the video and several years ago followed your method of installing the bushings in the rudder castings. I still have the SS upper and lower gudgeons and did not want to drill them out like the newer die cast gudgeons. Any thoughts on how to minimize some of the slop in the older style SS gudgeons (I use SS rudder pins from Murrays)?

a great resource for any maintenance / staff maintenance training on Hobie rudders! Thanks.

Thank you for an excellent educational video. Outstanding.

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GRRREAT! GREEAAT! No chance on a regata against THIS rudder!!!

Great Job!!

Thanks a lot Joe; very well explained. looking forward to using your advice and fine tuning my Cat next week-end. And enjoying sailing in Maputo Bay, Mozambique.

having just returned from sailing one of your boats i can vouch that the rudders were SWEET !
Just picked my heading , trimed the main and she sailed hands off for miniyutes if needed.
Now messing with mine to try and emuate that :>

Just wondering if anyone's ever had any experiencing with reinforcing or repairs to rudder pin holes in the tops of the hulls?

well explained man :) I  see you use a  torque wrench to  tie the bolts 

how many kg max  you are tuning it ?

Thanks for sharing! My HC 16 is getting better..

It's good to have video to see what to do, but you left out some very important steps which make H-16 steering completely reliable without breaking your cams.  You left out the shims on the tiller bar and you left out form-fitting the rudder into the casting using RTV.  Search "Towards the no-slop Rudder" by David Hall.

Thanks Joe ! you´re great !

To do with the bushes. My castings are already very loose with bushings installed... How do I fix that? 

Whats the best grease to use for the spring/plunger?

That was incredibly well done. Thank you.

What a great video ! I've just spend one day repairing my rudder following your instructions :-) I had one rudder that was badly repaired, so I filled the holes with fiber, then drill new holes correctly positioned and re-assemble the whole. It is now working perfectly and the the repaired rudder who was making an angle of about 15 degrees is now perfectly vertical... I do not "battle against" anymore... What a pleasure ! Thank you, Stéphane, from France (Vendée)

I know what I'm going to be doing next weekend now!

excellent video. thanks