Id be interested to hear if anyone has contemplated a centre mounted rudder instead of twin rudders

Just a couple of points:
Essentially this rudder would still need to kick up if contacting anything like grounding
Most of the things that apply to the current system design are the same
But it would mean there was only one rudder to accommodate

This has sort of been done on monohulls before, as there have been long keel boats like Dragons which have the rudder mounted on the keel, although presenting quite short moment arm for the rudder. And there have been fin-keel boats with trim tabs on the aft end of the keel. The difference here is that the boat needs to travel in both directions, so it cant have that preset lead condition between the centre of effort and the centre of lateral resistance. Well unless the wind is on the forward quarter or it rocks the rudder aft when the boat changes direction in a shunt.

So I would be interested what people thought or if it had been tried.

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