I have a couple 60" twin engine boats (side by side Zenoah) - one twin rudder and one (just finishing) single rudder and a 50" twin (about 1/2 complete) and am wondering ... with the single rudder would it be better to have rudder close to boat and between props ---- or futher back away from the props? I was told closer would help 'balance' engine rpm by seperating the props but futher back steers better and the boat is faster.

twin engines with twin drives - rudder close or extended ???

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Randy

i'm no pro but i would think you would want your rudder in clean water to get a bite, so i go with extended.

Good question. Not much info out there on twins honestly. On my twin Procat 50" I followed Remy's (Aeromarine) suggestions and ran the inline rudder.. Rudder behind strut. He said start with 2 rudders, on on each strut then drop to one and see if it still turns good. I currently have 1 rudder on right strut and propblast water pickup on the left strut. Ran it a couple times and seemed to turn not too bad. Will know more with time.


To answer your question, if I had to chose I would go with extended. This is just a guess though.

Personally id run one single rudder extended back a little.Remember this one Randy? seems to run well and turn just fine with this setup.
Mart
Wayne if your out there where yaa been lol

With the drives spread that far apart, I would center the rudder also. My cat has the drives much closer together, so centering the rudder would be a lot harder.

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Ya Wayne WHERE ARE U BUDDY .... need a CT03 video 'fix' I love that boat

Thanks for info any video of ur twin running yet Marc?

Randy

No video of my twin yet...ran into some small engine bugs and haven't had time to fix it yet. I hope to get it back in the water before the lakes freeze up!

HI
Hope these work will find out tomorrow (hopefully -7C right now)

I went with the single rudders on both the twin engine 50 (modified O Neill's) and the twin 60

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Randy

I can only post one pic at a time sorry

Randy

Canadian Hot Rod RC Boats wrote:Lat time i spoke to him mate he said he was gonna sell it as it kept breaking parts.
Mart