Ok Folks,
I glassed the new balsa wood back onto the rudder and then glassed the old skin back into it's original position. Both sides from the waterline down are complete.
I built a rudder template (using the rudder plans on the site) and started checking how fair my rudder was. At the thickest point of the rudder I had to take a layer of glass off one side...not so bad....but the other side I completly ground off the skin so that it's so thin I'm going to half to rebuild that side again.
So what gives? Any thoughts? All I can say is that when I put the rudder back together again everything fit like it did before. Has anyone had experience fairing their rudder...if so how much trimming was required?
Thanks
