Raising the rudder.

The 1984 14.2 is the third sailing dinghy I have had, and the only one that didn't have a line on the rudder to raise it from inside the cockpit. I made a bracket that attaches to the rudder with a line going through the tiller head to a jam cleat on the tiller. Now to raise the rudder I just release the tension adjuster and pull the line and put it in the jam cleat to hold the rudder up-much easier than pulling up the rudder by hand and retightening the tensioner. The boat is almost...

Raising the rudder.