Prout Owners Association

Hi Wuzzy10

Argyll Marine in Dumbarton could do it if you give them both the gudgeon and pintle. They would cut off the old pin, reweld on a new pin and ream out the rudder fitting to suit.

However, any competent stainless steel fabricator should be able to do it.

sv snowqueen

An update on my post of May 2010. By early 2014, the knocking noise from the rudders when at anchor in any height of wave had returned. The owner of ALIMAH, an 1990s Prout, suggested that the rudders, being hollow, could be lifting and that a halved tennis ball, or similar, fitted at the top of the ...

Are the Sonic leg and Yanmar still avaiable?

ED

i have a Prout rigging drawing from 1979 for the Snowgoose 37 with the single spreader 37ft mast. This specifies 6mmx1x19 stainless steel on all stays and shrouds except for the forestay which is 8mm. Unfortunately, it does not specify the design tension for the various stays or the mast rake, if an...

Last year I bought an early 1980s Snowgoose 37. It suffered from the "knocking" rudders system problem. Over the winter, I have refurbished the rudder system. Looking at the Prout mid 80s pricelists for kits for both the Snowgoose and the Quest, the steering systems seem to be similar. I r...