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Re: hydraulic rudder system?
By:Chip Sandresky
Date: 5/13/2003, 2:17 pm
In Response To: Re: hydraulic rudder system? (Reg Lake)

: I am paddling mostly rudderless kayaks and will not be doing any more with
: this unless a manufacturer wants to come up with some prototype bucks.
: Feel free to tinker with the ideas.

I have thought about a recessed dial control that would be somewhere on deck near the cockpit. You could adjust it with your thumb and it would move the rudder/hold it on angle... I'd probably use some type of pushrod or cable mechanism. But, like you, the idea is more interesting to me than the actual execution.

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Other: Modifications of the Baker PVC pump design
charles w -- 4/28/2003, 10:09 pm
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Shawn Baker -- 4/29/2003, 12:55 pm
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charles w -- 4/29/2003, 1:25 pm
Re: Other: Modifications of the Baker PVC pump des
Reg Lake -- 4/29/2003, 12:30 pm
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Reg Lake -- 5/12/2003, 1:47 am
Re: Other: Modifications of the Baker PVC pump des
Greg Morse -- 5/13/2003, 9:36 am
Rudder tinkering *LINK*
Reg Lake -- 5/13/2003, 11:15 am
Re: hydraulic rudder system?
Chip Sandresky -- 5/13/2003, 12:56 pm
Re: hydraulic rudder system?
Reg Lake -- 5/13/2003, 1:50 pm
Re: hydraulic rudder system?
Jeff The Tall -- 5/13/2003, 4:53 pm
Re: hydraulic rudder system?
Chip Sandresky -- 5/13/2003, 2:17 pm
Re: Other: Modifications of the Baker PVC pump des
charles w -- 5/13/2003, 7:15 am
Re: Other: Modifications of the Baker PVC pump des
Shawn Baker -- 4/29/2003, 1:29 pm
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charles w -- 4/29/2003, 1:01 pm
Re: Baker PVC pumps
Reg Lake -- 4/29/2003, 3:11 pm
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charles w -- 4/30/2003, 5:27 pm
Re: Baker PVC pumps
Jeff The Tall -- 4/29/2003, 4:10 pm