{"id":247,"date":"2004-09-28T10:03:08","date_gmt":"2004-09-28T14:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/wordpress\/?p=247"},"modified":"2012-10-15T10:06:50","modified_gmt":"2012-10-15T14:06:50","slug":"starting-the-rudder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/?p=247","title":{"rendered":"Starting the rudder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While the horizontal and vertical are awaiting inspection, I&#8217;ve started the rudder. I spent three hours or so studying the plans, then cutting stiffeners for the left rudder skin from the raw material provided.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_248\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/rud_left_stiffeners.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-248\" class=\"size-full wp-image-248\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/rud_left_stiffeners.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"299\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/rud_left_stiffeners.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/rud_left_stiffeners-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-248\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left rudder skin with stiffeners<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I had to read through the plans a couple of times to properly interpret how cuts are made between the prepunched holes. A bandsaw and belt\/disc sander really speed up the trimming\/shaping process. I didn&#8217;t like the little half-hole left where the stiffener taper is cut, so I used the belt sander to round off the corner a bit.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_249\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/sign_big.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-249\" class=\"size-full wp-image-249\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/sign_big.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"299\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/sign_big.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/sign_big-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-249\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hitchhiker&#8217;s guide quote<\/p><\/div>\n<p>One of my co-workers handed me this message today which he found in a piece of biscotti. I&#8217;ve never heard of &#8220;fortune biscotti&#8221; before, but it seems as though Mama has been reading &#8220;The Hitchiker&#8217;s Guide to the Galaxy.&#8221; This little tidbit had to get posted in the shop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the horizontal and vertical are awaiting inspection, I&#8217;ve started the rudder. I spent three hours or so studying the plans, then cutting stiffeners for the left rudder skin from the raw material provided. I had to read through the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/?p=247\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rudder"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=247"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":250,"href":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions\/250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}