 Today I'm making a rudder and My boat had two motors on it before I'm gonna replace one of the motors with a rudder and then keep the other motor Or I might change it for another motor. Anyway, there's gonna be one motor one rudder This is one of the motor mounts And it goes on the back of the boat in a convenient nice place right at the back of one of the pontoons And this is six centimeters or 15 No six inches or 15 centimeters from the water Ish, you know, obviously the water changes And I figure this is where the this is where the the motor pivoted I figure I can pivot a rudder here And I did already start making a rudder that was gonna work differently However, this is gonna be better and I've got a 316 Stainless steel pipe here, which is smooth Very smooth smooth shiny And I'm gonna use that as my rudder maybe flatten out this end. I'll go into the rudder Let's see six inches down or 15 centimeters. It'll get into the water. But anyway, first I want to just Mount it in this piece here, which is way too sloppy so I Found a couple PVC Scraps that fit quite nicely on this pipe. They're a they're a little bit loose, but they're pretty good They do not fit in here though So I think my first task is to lathe these down Until they fit snuggly into here one on the bottom one on the top. Well, this is the bottom Uh Ladies right here. Hey When you guys want to patch me the wire That's pretty good. Oh It is pretty good Nice, you don't have boots here. Do you have shoes? Oh You have nothing. Oh That is pretty good. Wow Like that way again All right, now figure out how to make a rudder out of this Stick, how do I make a rudder out of this stick? I have got this thing Which was the beginning of a hydrofoil experiment that I just never Got anywhere with because I don't know. I just got on other things and It's been sitting around for years just taking up space. I think I'm gonna turn this section Into a rudder maybe cut it off there or maybe I need a little longer Okay, this is upside. Well, okay, I can turn the camera upside down. Okay. Now. That's the way it's gonna go and my steel pipe Will come over here and that's where the water line will be so that would all be underwater If I cut this kind of right at the edge there That's pretty good rudder size right there And that's that's what would be in the water right now. There's gonna be more weight in the boat. So Yeah, I think that's actually pretty good. I can just Cut it right about there Yeah Maybe if I Cut a couple grooves in here and on the other side Cut a slice down the middle of this You can kind of fit it right on there and then flatten out these Let's do it I got a cut down there my angle grinder Now I'm gonna flatten this end Maybe I can start If my lice is strong enough. Oh, it looks like it's doing a job. Not a bad start Camera next. I want that to gradually go up. Yeah, really get this on there. Hey, don't care for it Well, that is on there tight That sucker is not coming off. I Think I'll put two rivets down at the bottom there stainless steel and that should be it Nothing is not moving. I Just want some rivets to pull those pieces in Well, my rivets to be low profile so as to not so I took the little stick out of it Cut it shorter. I'm just Mashing it on Standard Pretty flat Good stuff. It's on there real good nice stuff right there. Oh, that's great All right, now the top end Well, I need up here Something to go on this so it doesn't fall through And then some kind of stick for the thing to move it. All right, let's start with the thing there Basically the same as one of these Oh, I guess I should put two screws in there just to make sure this thing doesn't move Three since I'm putting tiny little screws. It holds it in place pretty well. Oh come on fit I'll get in there Just that's locked in there pretty good Actually meant this to go up this way. I drove it the wrong way So it goes down a little whatever it's Sure still clears the stuff needs to clear