Rudder - the final part, tiller installation
The end of the year the project has been slower. The end of January I took ten 10 days of in order to be able to complete the final parts. One of the critical details was the installation of the new tiller head. The original one was actually only made for the emergency tiller and was very weak. The thickness of the SS was very thin and only the side plates were passing the forces to the shaft. The differences with the new tiller head is clear. Also the end of the tiller had to be made wider. This is how it looks installed. Just to get an impression of how it will look with the tiller installed (which still had to receive the last varnish coating).