KickUpBusiness

I've been scratching my head for a while trying to come up with a kick up design for the rudders. There are some interesting variables in the equation. First of all my rear beam is very close to the transom, basically it is the transom as the rear beam is fixed in a double bulkhead configuration, so I tried to push it aft in order to be able to use the space inside more efficiently. Since the rear beam is at the transom, the hulls being low and the beam connection to the hull is a high bend, there is no room for a cockpit facing tiller, that means I have to invert the tiller config. A regular beach cat kick up system uses a pivoting rudders in a casing, depending on the height and configuration of the transom that foil usually gets pretty tall, which I don't want. I will only be able to make moulds on a cnc machine up to 134cm tall. The usual beach cat kickup system has slop nomatter what you do to it. I really don't want to be fairing a 170cm rudder or remake one in case it gets smashed. I'd rather have a shorter rudder, less carbon, less material, easier to make, cheaper. I wanted to eliminate slop if possible so I came up with this system. The tall post can be made by laminating carbon over wood, doesn't need to be faired to perfection, requires less finishing. If the foil gets damaged I'll remove it from the post and make another one, stick the post into it, glue it and that's it. Cheaper. I wanted all the parts in the kick up system to be very simple, easier to improvise all over the world if I need to. Brackets, bearing bolts and some levers. If the rudder hits something the lower joint will pop a calibrated bolt, breake it , swing and rotate around the upper pivot, clear out of the water, and clear of the tiller crossbar, that means the other rudder will still give control. Asess damage, swing it back to position, refit bolt and move on. The system parts are pretty heavy duty and obviously not not very light if engineered by hearsay. Apart from the weight, the odd looks, I'm pretty comfident it should work quite well and be very robust. No casting or case that can brake, I would say slop free, and easy to maintain, just check slop in bearings, if any, lube it, check calibrated breakable bolt and that's about it. I guess...