Roxane & Romilly

This design for a bearing out spar on a Drascombe might help? http://www.hopwood.uk.net/Drascombe%20projects/Bearing%20out%20spar.htm

I too have a Romilly, no 29, built by Bridgend which I sail out of Salcombe. She sits on a swinging mooring which has contributed to wear in both the rudder pintles and the bottom bearing. I have rectified the upper two pintles by making two new ones from bronze but would be interested to hear what you did about the bottom bearing as I am not sure how to go about it.
Do you or anyone else know if the bottom gudgeon has a removable bush and does the tapered pin unsrew out of the rudder?
David

I repaired my rudder pintles with epoxy last year with very good results. The base and transom had play from rocking on the mooring. With a small length copper plumbing pipe (2 inches) and duct tape, I fashioned a molding to a micrometer measured diameter for the base. With the rudder removed and inverted, the copper tube provided a pouring mold for the epoxy and colloidal silica filler. The pipe and duct tape provided a very close match to the diameter of the original pintle so it fit securely for the pour. One layer of duct tape applied inside the pipe provided a margin of adjustment to the diameter. I coated the surfaces with petroleum jelly to prevent epoxy adhesion. I also added a 1 mm thick Delrin washer to the top and bottom gudgeons (EZ-LOADER 2-5/8” O.D. Plastic Delrin Washer #290-015755). Painting with epoxy and sanding the transom pintles created a tight fit and good results.