What a nonsense, who says Phill was first ? Besides his design was strikingly vague. The real designing is hardly ever in the concept but rather in getting the details right. One of those problems was to find a simple way to fit the foils to the rudder so it can turn about its axis. Simply bolting it through won't work.

Now I'm not claiming to have done something special here, but I'm also not accepting any claims by others who wrote statements like:"if you use a rod in some way, so that it adjusts the angle somehow then it could be designed such that it would be adjustable if you find a way to somehow control it from the top of the rudder board."

YEAH DUHHH ! My granny could have thought that one up.

Wouter [/quote]

Calm Down Wouter, if you read the post properly you will see I was giving Phill credit for his post not your invention, I had wrongly said "John" had come up with the idea and John pointed out it was in fact Phill, I was simply admitting my error and giving Phill proper credit.

There was no need for the hissy fit.

Of course if your Granny had in fact thought of it first then I should have given her the credit but I didn't know at the time.

Gareth