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Old 09-05-2014, 09:20 AM
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Originally Posted by JUSS10
One of the things I thought of with my boat was to add two flat peices on the sides of the rudder that are perpendicular to the main rudder but at an angle up or down to try and create lift or down pressure from the rudder. mind you, since they are fixed they would always be applying that pressure whether you are turning or not.
Interesting idea and as long as one used a high torque servo it should handle the job. Your board runs well you shouldn't need much if anything by the looks of it. The board I'm building will have a glow engine so it'll be considerably lighter and in all likelihood be prone to more lifting.