Rudder

Rudder osmosis treatment

This was a very interesting project an owner came to us with. After taking out his boat for its regular hull maintenance, we realized one of its rudders was full with water, initiating a very high risk of definitive damage due to osmosis. Instead of changing the rudder, we proposed a deep treatment involving openingContinue reading “Rudder osmosis treatment”

Rudder repair on a Lagoon 450F

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 frontContinue reading “Rudder repair on a Lagoon 450F”

Rudder structural repair

The bottom of this rudder was grounded and required some heavy structural repair. What made the project interesting is that we only had a very limited timeframe to conduct it. So we came up with a solution to reduce the duration of the whole operation, and we could put back the boat in the waterContinue reading “Rudder structural repair”