Yeah - that's it. It was the stainless eye that sheared off. It appeared the the weld may have been cracked for some time. Once that broke, it bent the lower gudgeon severely. It took some doing just to get the casting off the back of the boat. We phoned the ground crew but got their voice mail because they were wrestling with a blow out on the RV on the narrow A1A out of the keys! We decided to see how she sailed on one rudder, and besides being a little handicapped without both of us on the wire, we were making good speed - so we carried on. David drove the hell out of the boat.

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