Hi, I wonder if any guys could help me , I am looking for a rudder and stock, boom and other bits
The traditional budget boom back in the day was a Laser boom that had snapped at the kicker fitting. Saw it off smooth, stuff a bit of hardwood in the end with a hole drilled in for the gooseneck fitting, and rivet three fairleads *on the top* to locate lashings for kicker and mainsheet. The kicker especially needs to be a lashing or webbing. Probably not strong enough for a modern big roach sail with the extra loads, but fine for the pre 84 rigs. I used one on Queenie for about twenty years, although she's now got a cut down Fireball boom.
This isn't Martin Hunter as in Spindrift is it? If so you're probably pretty local to me and doubtless I can lend a hand and perhaps some bits to copy... Queenie's rudder stock is a ply construction that's strong enough and easy enough to build for instance so you take a look at that as a pattern.
[later]
Said converted Laser boom is still sitting on the garage rafters along with an ex Halo alloy bowsprit, the battered *centreboard* from my first Cherub, which was probably a McCutcheon mk2, a ridiculously oversized and nasty daggerrudder and stock I made for recreational sailing and a rudder blade of a Harrier! You can have the boom, (obviously its loosefooted) you won't want the rudder...
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