The Trailer and rudder

These are some detail shots of the trailer showing rust. Overall it's pretty good. It can be hard to get perspective with such close shots so I've basically gone round it clockwise. Hopefully that will help get your bearings.

The drawbar and main frame are good.

Surface rust at the front.

The cable has some rust.

Mast pole.

and the yoke.

The front yokes are rusted right through. I sheared off this bolt trying to remove it.

There are 3 of these  1" x 2" cross beams. This is the front one starboard side aft.

The aft crossbeam. This area is by far the worst. I may replace this whole beam and the one in front of it.

Middle beam starboard. The port side is worse.

Under the aft beam.

Aft beam middle.

The front beam(visible here) is ok. The middle one has rust at each end.

Aft beam port corner.

Middle beam port side rear.

Middle beam port side front.

Aft beam starboard from the front.

The boat is half off the trailer.

The stickers say Clipper, but I can't get it to show in the photos. The same factory at Wynnum  made the Cal 14 and 21, the Clipper 17 and 21 and I believe the Hood yachts.

I am making a new rudder. I took the axe handle the previous owner had attached to the original rudder, chopped a motrice in it and cut down a catamaran daggerboard to fit to it.

Same length a little wider. It doesn't need to pivot as the keel protects it.

The old tiller was broken. Rudder is ply and rotted. Tiller might be cedar. It's light weight but not the right colour and grain. Dunno, could be something cheaper.

The hardware was hard work to strip. When you reach for that second set of vice grips...