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Rudder Post Mystery

By | January 17, 2006

The Kettenburg history records tell us that PC's 13, 15 and 17 were built up in Newport by Southcoast Boatworks. Written articles from the time explain that a major difference in these boats was that the rudder post continued up THROUGH the deck, where the tiller was then fixed. PC fleeet member Vance Gustafson (#9) tells me that he owned #13 in 1949 and she did NOT have the longer rudder post, but it stopped short just under the deck as we commonly see. So...what do we believe, the history records or an owners knowledge?? Perhaps she was modified