After 11,000 miles in less than 2 years our little rudder had moved port and starboard a good many times. We noticed some play in the rudder and as we were going to haul her before Australia to ensure that she has a clean hull, we decided to drop the rudder too. It proved to have been the first time the rudder had been dropped in all 34 years for Orion. We could see why! One has to hack away the skeg in order to access the pintle! Design flaw in my opinion as one would be less likely to drop a rudder to check its health if it is such a mission to do so.
Fortunately others before me had done this and provided all the information on what to do.
www.tartan37.com/T37TRC1S1.pdf
A new bush was fabricated, the pintle shined up and I replaced all the bolts (nuts too).
It was an easy job to put it all back.
The skeg was re-glassed and faired and primed.
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