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Features:
Mounts on the stern of your kayaks vertically.
Gain control of your kayak in windy or turbulent conditions.
Pin measures approximately 1.8" in length and 0.4" in diameter.
Able to be secured when in the raised position to prevent the rudder from self deploying.
Wires run from the blade to your foot brace which are used to control the rudder during paddling.
Work with foot control (Not Included) to achieve the effect of direction change and designed for seayak, kayak, canoe, angling boat, etc
Specifications:
Color: Black
Material: Nylon & 304 stainless steel
Pin size: 4.5 * 1cm / 1.8 * 0.4in(L * D)
Rudder blade length: Approx. 45cm / 17.7in
Size: Approx. 47 *15.5 * 14.2cm / 18.5 * 6.1 * 5.6 in (L * W * H)
Package List:
1 * Kayak Rudder
1 * Control Line
Debra Hardy
Reviewed in the United States on September 8, 2024
Purched this to add to my 10 ft recreational kayak to help it track straight and it worked perfectly. Before instally the kayak would not stay straight, now when I stop paddling it continues on a straight path. I had to modify the mounting bracket to fit my kayak but it fits great.
Eric Switlick
Reviewed in the United States on May 27, 2024
It works perfectly along with the foot pedal controls I installed for steering. If you have a kayak designed for rudders this probably would be a simple install but for anyone, including myself, that doesn’t have a kayak designed for it it will definitely take some work depending on how functional you want it to be. It’s pretty straight forward what you have to do but I had to design a mount, run cables through the hull, run pull line across the deck. Definitely doable for anyone who has done some kayak modding before!
John Powell
Reviewed in the United States on May 20, 2024
This replaced a broken rudder on one of my kayaks. The included bracket needed a little mod to retrofit, but finally works. Haven’t used it in the water yet, but all functions are working.
Joe Barkley
Reviewed in the United States on February 27, 2024
I found this on Amazon and thought it would work great for my installation and what I needed. It looks fairly well built, however there were no instructions included of any kind. The screw on bracket is pretty self-explanatory and the way the rudder mounts but the control rope have no clue as to how to hook it up so I guess I will have to experiment on my own. I guess that's why it was so cheap. You get what you pay for these days
Chris
Reviewed in the United States on October 28, 2024
Happy with the product. If you've never tied up the deployment rope instructions would have been handy
JoHo
Reviewed in Canada on September 12, 2023
As many have stated, no really useful instructions but if your handy, you'll figure it out. Had to build a mount for my plastic pelican kayak as it's not really made to sit in the tow rope hole (or whatever fancy name those holes have).
EnglandAPO
Reviewed in the United States on September 19, 2022
This is an incredible price for a kayak rudder, wouldn't have imagine it possible 10yrs ago. I installed it on a 9' kayak as short kayaks will always have problem tracking straight without further help. I got creative and was able to install it with what tools and bits I had laying around the garage, in the end I only used it as a skeg without foot controls which was perfect and my short kayak goes straight as an arrow now (with the loss of some speed of course as rudder sacrifice).
Javier
Reviewed in the United States on June 13, 2022
Wow what an awesome rudder for the price!! I got it installed in less than an hour as it was a complete bolt on on my WILDERNESS SYSTEMS PAMLICO kayak all I had to do was drill one of the holes on the bracket a little bigger just bc it wouldn’t line up 100% but that was it, also I had to run longer lines to deploy and stow away the rudder just bc they wouldn’t reach where I wanted them to no big deal tho as I had about 100ft of paracord laying around from other projects. Can’t wait to test it out tomorrow.
M. Farley
Reviewed in the United States on November 5, 2022
As others have said, there are no instructions that come with this rudder kit. You could say that makes it something less of a kit, but if you've used a rudder on a kayak before, the installation isn't that hard to figure out. I have an old Dagger Tupelo canoe, which is a sit on the bottom boat that paddles like a kayak but doesn't track as well as my kayak. I did not set it up with the foot pedals for steering, so it functions like a skeg that can be raised and lowered from the stern. After planning the placement and measuring, I drilled three holes in the fiberglass stern cover and riveted two embedded nuts below the surface. I drilled new holes in the mounting plates as the ones that were pre-drilled were useless. If the manufacturer reads this review, think about drilling a couple more mounting holes closer to the large pin in the center. Anyway, the biggest problem I had with the whole process was finding a couple short #10 x 24 bolts in my collection of old hardware. I would have saved time driving to the hardware store and buying bolts. Whatever, I don't really blame the manufacturer as there are many ways these things could be mounted, using far too many combinations of hardware pieces. It's seems less like a kit when the mounting hardware isn't included, but why would I want to pay for shipping a bunch of pieces I would never use? Using an unused pulley in a rafter I clipped it to a pad eye then tied the kit line, forming a loop from the pulley in the cockpit to the rudder in the sterm. The rudder has several line-sized holes around the pivot that the line goes through and by routing one side of the line over the top of the pivot and the other under the bottom of the pivot the rudder can be raised and lowered easily by pulling on one side of the loop or the other. The rudder mechanism moves easily through it's full range. Note: the line doesn't need to be tensioned much, so there is no need to overthink mechanisms like cams for keeping the line taut. I have not had it out on the water yet to see how it works, but I'm confident that the installation will be good enough for my next paddle.
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