Rudder Mount Failure

[dingleberry]

And here is page 11

[Guapo]

Well done comrades....

[River Runner]

DUDE....your rudder fell off!!!!

[Guapo]

DUDE....your rudder fell off!!!!

Fast Times At Rudder-Mount High

[murphini]

Fast Times At Rudder-Mount High

Spiccoli: Should be Tige owner. His last line in FTARH:

"All I need is some tasty waves and cool buds and I'm fine".

*Queue the Cars soundtrack and Phoebe Cates exiting the pool...

[ImaPigDog]

Phoebe Cates exiting the pool...

I think little chubby just moved.

[Guapo]

I think little chubby just moved.

TMI...LOL

[chpthril]

Spiccoli: Should be Tige owner. His last line in FTARH:

"All I need is some tasty waves and cool buds and I'm fine".

*Queue the Cars soundtrack and Phoebe Cates exiting the pool...

gees, doesnt anyone knock around here

[goose69]

The mystery is solved....My insurance company hired a marine forensic investigator and the report is in. I hit a submerged object. It left a 6” mark in the gel coat and causing it to defect down. It then barely dented the prop and the slammed into the rudder. It hit the rudder so hard it delaminated the hull from rudder to where the prop shaft exits the boat. This is probably absorbed the shock so I only felt it in the steering wheel. The dent in the prop blade was so perfectly cupped you couldn’t see the damage from the back side. Like I said earlier I admit when I am wrong and I was wrong!!

[chpthril]

The mystery is solved....My insurance company hired a marine forensic investigator and the report is in. I hit a submerged object. It left a 6” mark in the gel coat and causing it to defect down. It then barely dented the prop and the slammed into the rudder. It hit the rudder so hard it delaminated the hull from rudder to where the prop shaft exits the boat. This is probably absorbed the shock so I only felt it in the steering wheel. The dent in the prop blade was so perfectly cupped you couldn’t see the damage from the back side. Like I said earlier I admit when I am wrong and I was wrong!!

Well, i hope this is good news, is it fixable or will the insurance total it. Either way, it sounds like it's a covered incident, so hopefully you can come away with some sort of favorable resolution.

[lohe]

Now get it back out on the water and enjoy it! Glad its all fixed.

[goose69]

Now it will be three week and 15k(ins). Been rolling in a super air nautique, but can't wait to get it back my 22v has a much better wake.

[da.bell]

Well, it sucks that you hit something but at least you know what was the problem and things are going to head into the right direction now.

[SPBFAN]

At least you know what happened now sorry you went through so much to figure out you hit something. I fortunately did not have that problem I knew I hit something the instant it happened. It was not fun. I was not driving the boat anywhere. It was dead in the water.

[Moki]

Glad to hear that the mystery is solved. I hit a submerged object before and my insurance covered everything. This boat was an I/O and $3500 dollars later from the insurance company, I was back on the water.

Here is pic of the thickness of my hull with the rudder removed: