Cable Adjustment Kit

A rudder cable adjuster lets you take up slack in a rudder cable without re-terminating it. Turn the adjuster, and the cable shortens. It is the difference between a ten-second tune-up and an hour with swage tools.

Why You Need Adjustment At All

New cable beds in and stretches slightly over its first season. Terminations settle. A rudder that was dead straight in March is off-centre by June, and the pedals no longer sit level.

Without adjusters your options are to live with it or to cut and re-terminate. With them you turn a barrel until the blade sits straight again.

Adjustment range: 1-5/16", which is plenty for normal bedding-in and settling.

Sold as a Pair, Thru-Hull

You get two — one for each side. Adjusting one side only would swing the rudder off centre, so they always go in as a pair.

Ours is the thru-hull configuration. Fitting replaces the bow-most cable clamp with the adjuster clamp plus a screw-in bracket. If your boat has a stud-mounted foot brace system rather than thru-hull, bring it in and we will look before you buy — the mounting differs.

Discontinued, So Buy It When You See It

Sea-Lect has discontinued this rudder cable adjuster kit. What is on our shelf is what we have.

These normally ship inside the box with a new rudder-control foot brace, which is why they are rarely stocked separately — and why, when you need one on its own, it is unexpectedly hard to find. If you run a Sea-Lect rudder system, a spare pair in the parts bin is not a silly purchase.

Details

• Rudder cable adjuster kit

• Sold as a pair

• 1-5/16" adjustment range

• Thru-hull configuration

• Black

• Discontinued by the manufacturer — shelf stock only

At our Clearwater shop.