Line from keel to rudder

[Ian McColgin]

On Granuaile - an LFH Marco Polo schooner - I had a length of very heavy monofillament. At the keel end I set the mono - with a loop made with an angler's knot - into a lump of epoxy. I put a screw in the rudder's bottom right under the pivot point and pulled the mono to that, another angler's knot, and there we are. Tended to replace it each haul out. After some groundings in mud or sand the line got stretched and needed replacement.

My thought is to have something that can break-away and will not cause more trouble if one end comes loose and the other finds the prop.

We ran over a few things where I'm sure there'd have been a foul were it not for the mono.

G'luck