Bond Girl’s New Custom Rudder Support

Jenessa Hilger

The weekend before our wedding, my husband and I bought our S2 7.9 meter sailboat. She was exactly what we were looking for, a trailerable racer/cruiser that was a diamond in the rough. We felt fate had drawn us to her. She was hull number 7, 007 to be exact, and I had about six months under my belt working at Gougeon Brothers, so the boat basically named herself: Bond Girl. Over the past nine years, we’ve made many improvements, the latest of which was building a custom fiberglass and carbon fiber rudder support, or as I nicknamed it, a rudder hook. Because of the length of the rudder, and how low these boats sit on the trailer, it’s important to support the rudder kicked up for launching and retrieving.…

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Sailing World (Digital) - 1 Issue, Summer 2023

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