Hunter 335 - You opinions?

[Poignard]

One can imagine all sorts of things, but if your imagination exceeds the facts you will never go anywhere.

A trite remark. But seeing a less than 2-year old, very expensive yacht scuttled by its owners in mid-Atlantic because they were unable to steer it after its rudder fell off without warning, was not something I imagined I would ever see.
Having seen such a thing, one would be very stupid to take refuge in statistics rather than the evidence of one's own eyes when weighing up the pros and cons of different types of cruising yacht .

You might as well say, most houses are not burgled therefore I won't bother to lock my door.

 

[Poignard]

Haha awesome, almost sounds like a sails pitch... how much is she going for?!

Definitely not for sale!

 

[Tranona]

A trite remark. But seeing a less than 2-year old, very expensive yacht scuttled by its owners in mid-Atlantic because they were unable to steer it after its rudder fell off without warning, was not something I imagined I would ever see.
Having seen such a thing, one would be very stupid to take refuge in statistics rather than the evidence of one's own eyes when weighing up the pros and cons of different types of cruising yacht .

You might as well say, most houses are not burgled therefore I won't bother to lock my door.

Not a trite remark at all. If you went looking you will find examples of all sorts of rudders failing at some time or other - just that you don't see them.

The fact remains that there are literally tens of thousands of spade rudders doing their job without any problems. The specific failure referred to here was not a failure of the design as such but the choice of material.

So, are all the tens of thousands of people who own and operate boats with spade rudders in mortal danger - or stupid? or both? Perhaps not.