Years ago, I was directed to a link of the St. Simons web site. There, they had some good pics of nacra rudder mods.

I developed my own largely based on this. I know others have done the same.

Advantages to the uphaul line are: you don't loose all helm when they kick up some, and, the bungy doesn't pull it away from the casting while underway, loosing your rake.

Eric's procedure about the power lock is the ONLY way i put my rudders down. Put the downhaul line in the cleat with the pivmatic aoubt 1-2 inches from being locked, then lock it down. Otherwise, it will ALWAYS creep some, loosing that precious rudder rake.

When landing onto a shallow, I pull the pivmatic up by hand, and the rudder still stays down because no bungy. Then as it hits bottom, it gently pivots up, NOT scraping the surface of the rudder off on the sandy bottom!

I trhought those stock cleats were called
"jam cleats", b/c the line jams into them.

Todd Bouton
N6.0na+