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Hi Nick, sounds like the rudder pintle and gudgeon may not be not set right for the rudder stock. The tiller should rest well clear of the aft deck. How the tiller is fixed depends on the rudder stock design, some are clamped, some bolted, some fixed rudders are glassed in.
Can you post a photo?
And if you feel like really splashing out, the Ronstan ‘Battlestick’ is brilliant, though nearly twice the cost. Useful of you swap helm and crew.
Seconded – I’ve repaired GP14 and Mirror rudders and centreboards this way.
Be sure to clean back to good material,, then if the nick or break is deep you can use a fine panel pin tapped into the damaged edge as support. I used the SP ‘Handipack’ epoxy with dispenser pumps, thickened with microfibres + the red/brown microballoons to thicken and give body.
This filler isn’t quite as hard as the ‘glass bubble filler but much easier to sand and fair in, doesn’t ‘slump’ too much before it goes off; important for foils. Just clamp the foil in a workmate of vice while you work on it, Unless you plan to make a habit of going aground on gravel (!), single pack marine pain is fine.
It’s surprising how many bits of plywood there are around a Speed GP! There’s another at the transom end of the ‘keel’, by the bung hole. That rots in time, allows the bottom of the boat to crack, and another spring leak! into the double skin. After sorting that mine (13558) has been dry, apart from one too many bashes to the bow, and a leak behind the bow protector – a Welsh Harp modification by the way!
