[quote=tamumpower1]I've only ever seen the gudgeons on the first photo on older boats and the smooth barrel ones in the second photo on basically every other boat up to late ones.
Never heard of them breaking either but I guess now I'll just go weld some extra fillet in there for the heck of it.
And yea aliuminum pins either eventually break or can get scored up. I cut some 316 stainless ones for all my boats. People that think youd rip the back end of your boat off because the pins arent sacrificial anymore seem crazy to me. Pretty sure you'd shear off the screws holding them on the transom, or straight break the rudder off before the back end of a hobie is going anywhere. There's a plate glassed into the back of the boat that everything threads into. Shes strong.[/quote]
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