Ken, for those of us who did not see your tie-rod ends. Could you enlighten further? I added Hobie 20 connectors to my H17 and they worked rather well.

Just finished refurbishing my rudders and they work like a dream. I added Hobie connector bushings in each of the pin connector points and basically eliminated all of the connector looseness.

Rudder bushings are next.

Sail fast, Tom G