Interesting project

 

The folks at Deaton Marine showed me an old wooden rudder and asked if I could build a new one. We discussed making it out of fiberglass and foam, then teak or just rebuilding the old one. The owner opted for a new teak rudder. Here’s a short pictorial on building a new teak rudder for an older boat.

The rudder stock needed new bronze tierods to hold the rudder together.
I'm heating the bronze rods and peening them over into the oval holes.

you can see how flush they ended up.





The finished rudder stock. Now the wood

 

I cut and shaped a ruff cut teak board until I had 3 boards then jointed the edges to 90deg. Here there put together into the ruff shape of the old rudder. 



next, the boards had to be drilled for the bronze rods



then, pocket holes drilled for the nuts and washers.

Finally, lots of epoxy and we slid the two boards together



The last piece goes on, now the nuts and washers.

A bit of work with a power planer, a hand planer, a belt sander, a plam sander and hand sanding results in...

a new rudder.