We don’t exactly specialize in those, but the fact is we’ve been repairing rudders many times over the last few years. Osmosis starting to show, obvious leak shown when lifting the boat out of the water, or dent which would happen any time the boat would hit something, including fishing line. And with the front mooring lines which are a standard in the Med, it happens quite often while docking out.
This is what this owner of a Lagoon 450F came to us with.
While getting out of his slip, they went too near another boat’s front mooring line, and the front of the rudder took a hit. Even at very low speed, obviously less than 2-3 kn, the damage needed to be immediately taken care off.
We were lucky that the yard’s crane was available on the spot, and we were able to book it, together with a very discounted 24h space on the hard.
So we got the boat out of the water and managed to do the repair by the next day, and the happy owner and his party could resume their cruising plans to the Egadi Islands.
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