{"id":1425,"date":"1999-11-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1999-11-30T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/?p=1425"},"modified":"2015-10-16T12:16:07","modified_gmt":"2015-10-16T17:16:07","slug":"rudder-stock-on-aluminum-boat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/rudder-stock-on-aluminum-boat\/","title":{"rendered":"Rudder Stock on an Aluminum Boat"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"question\">\n<p>I am building an Aluminum Sailboat with a spade rudder and rudder stock. I am planning to use UHMWPE plain bearings. Would it be a good idea to hard anodise the shaft in the area of the bearings to reduce the wear? Would there be any corrosion issues? Thanks, Howard<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"answer\">\n<p>Hi Howard: There are several issues at play. First is the alloy of the rudder stock. If this is 6061 or 6063, it would be best to anodize because of long-term corrosion under water. 5083\/6 is not so sensitive and you can get away with using it bare (it is also stronger).<\/p>\n<p>As to wear, while the anodized surface is indeed harder, both alloys will wear on the UHMW before the aluminum sheds material.<\/p>\n<p>Bottom line&#8211;if you can anodize without busting the budget, I would do so.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am building an Aluminum Sailboat with a spade rudder and rudder stock. I am planning to use UHMWPE plain <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/rudder-stock-on-aluminum-boat\/\">&#8230;Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech-talk","category-self-steering-faqs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1425"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1425"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36542,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1425\/revisions\/36542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}