bobtriad
02-11-2004, 02:06 AM
In a high speed turn with two big inner-tubers out behind, I snapped the rudder right out of the boat. The through-hull rudder box is about 4" square and the backing glassed into the hull surrounding the box WAS only 5 inches square. That hole sunk my boat within about 90 seconds. Fortunately, I made it to shore before complete inundation---no water in the induction of the engine, OR on the instrumentation. Reglassed a new rudder box into the hull, with 12" square backing (stringer to stringer, like most other comp boats!!). Just about back on the water.... I think this is design flaw and SUPRA should have made this good, but they were unwilling to consider any responsibility for this situation. 454 engine...507 total hours.