The as far as I know the Tinybrowser should be working for you but I have had intermitent issues with it on different computers also.

I was working on this last night when I found that the  TinyMCE editor and Tiny browser uploader had a security vulnerability that someone tried to take advantage of about 5 days ago. Luckly the hacker was pretty inept. I am working on that right now with the software developers. I will get back to the uploading issue after dealing with this. For the moment I am going to remove the editor that is vulnerable to this exploit. It will mean that the nice formating options and spell checking etc.. all go away for a few days. Bear with me as I work on this.

scott

Yes, I have mailed some more pix to Mariposa Bob, but unfortunately none show the rudder very clearly.  As I told him, this is going to be like the 5 blind guys trying to describe the elephant by feel - you only get a part of the story from each.

Scott - thanks for the tutorial - I will try to attach a picture to this posting.

Mariposa Bob -

Boy, that's too bad.  That looked like a nice rudder.  But I agree with Scott - since you get another chance, that dragging aft tip should be trimmed off of the next one.  Imagine trying to turn the rudder to get the boat off when it is in the mud.

Scott -

Nope, when I get to the TinyBrowser window, it is completely empty for me.  Does it depend on some microsoft-ism?  Because I don't use their stuff.

bob

s/v Eolian
DE45 #11
Seattle

Living Aboard: Windborne In Puget Sound

Just looking at it by eye it looks good. I would worry a little bit about how low the bottom is on the aft end of the rudder but other than that it looks darn close to the pictures of Eolian. What was wrong with it that it didn't work?

The below link will take you to the tutorial.

/forums/welcome-to-the-downeaster-yachts-forum/how-to-upload-images/#p128

Our DE38, Perelandra, is on the hard for the winter.  I'd be happy to measure up the rudder, take photographs and otherwise provide any assistance that might be needed.  If you need me to help out, reply here and/or send an email to doug@thementucks.com.  I'm on the East coast, so you probably wouldn't be able to get a firsthand look, but I'd be happy to meet you if you want to make the trek!

Doug Mentuck

We think we hit a whale or a whale came up under us, but at the time we were in 10 - 12 ft following seas and winds gusting to 35mph.  Who has time to look around?

Damage to the boat was minimal..the rudder was gone and a few scratches on the keel.  We had our sails tied down because of the storm the previous night at the marina and because the forecast was for winds of less than 5 kn we didn't bother releasing the sails.  So motorsailing and doing well until we lost all steering.  After broaching twice I finally figured out how to turn the boat into the waves using prop walk.  So for 20 mins, until the coasties got there I played with the throttle.  Being towed in by the coasties at over ten kn in a storm is a whole new experience!  In fact it should be a new ride at Disney!

The rudder and post came off cleanly at the bottom of the rudder log at the hull line, so no water got into the boat! I will try to attach a photo of the boat after the new rudder they made first.  Before that it was just a boat without the rudder..nothing to see(no pun intended). Sorry can't get the picture in .[Image Can Not Be Found]

Bob

S/V Mariposa Bella

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while your building a rudder you might angle it up more at the aft end bottom so that if you go aground it is less likely to hit bottom. You could regain that surface area by making it a hair wider front to back. By the way, what broke that the rudder came off and you lost it? Do you know? if you have damage and got some good pictures of it please send them in or post them. It would be a good refereance for others.

scott

I based the above measurements on the prop diameter. If you could measure the distance between the upper and lower mounts for the rudder and compare it to the measurement I made of the same distance on the rudder it will give you an idea how accurate I was in all the measurements. If it is much different let me know what it was in inches and I can recalculate the other measurements.

I will most likely be on the boat the next couple days so I might or might not be able to check in on the forum till tuesday/wed 🙂 then off to huntsville alabama for thanksgiving weekend.

Could you test uploading something again? If it doesn't work I will need to play with it.. It is working ok for me. It isn't the most user friendly upload interface I've ever seen but it does work for me.

I also have found that if you upload images larger than about 1024 in width that it screws with the formating on the forum for some reason. You can adjust the displayed size with the image properties to fix this. Also setting the images to middle alignment seems to help also.

scott

scott

the angle isn't quite square so there will be some small margin of error in this. also I can't measure the whole boat in the image so I have measured the

prop as a known diameter and then using that to calculate the inches per pixel to use in measuring the rudder.

in the image I am figuring the prop is 52.5 pixels in diameter. Bob from Eolian has told me that the prop is 20 inches

in diameter. so we divide 20 into 52.5 to get 2.625 inches per pixel. now we measure the rudder

and we get

If you have any questions just let me know.. I will say that it isn't even close to a DE38 rudder.

Here is the original image Bob of Eolian sent me that I measured. The edited image is a crop of the area that I then resized bigger and annotated with the measurements I took.