Jerry, It's a shame nobody is manufacturing his inventions anymore, this is a great pintle design. It seems unlikely to me that the pintle could have failed during actual operation- maybe it was damaged in storage by the previous owner. The specs on this pintle you used on a 15' boat are comparable to those used on the O'day 26 and many other boats with 5-10x the displacement. My Catalina 22 has a much smaller pintle and the forces on the tiller are an order of magnitude greater. Tyler Davis, CA M15 #157 "Defiant" On Jan 9, 2015, at 11:54 AM, <jerry@jerrymontgomery.org> <jerry@jerrymontgomery.org> wrote:
Tyler- Kurt retired at least 20 years ago and I haven't had any contact for years. A good guy and a very smart engineer, as you would expect for a German. Wish someone was making the pintles; we'd consider using them on the upcoming Sage 15. They worked great and yours is the first one I've heard of that failed. I'm glad that RudderCraft is making something similar.
See you at Lake Pleasant.
Jerry