C. Johnston
I'm interested in how you balanced the rudder. I put a couple of thousand miles on my J/30 cruising in Mexico and one of the few things I wished for was a balanced rudder so that the autopilot would have an easier time. Did you add area to the leading edge by eyeball? Involve a designer or naval architect? Change the turning axis on the existing rudder? Some trick I haven't thought of yet that doesn't involve modifying the rudder?
