rudder not enough clearance-how to fix?

[Jeff Tancock]

In your case you may be right to grind the skeg, but my shaft is definitely what we were bending. It was very straight forward, controlled and easy to do.
I would also like to mention that I had been worried for years about the warnings of a rusting out grid in my rudder. I went in to the ship yard that did the repairs to see the autopsy on the old rudder. On my boat, #630, there was no iron grid! Instead I saw two very large stainless plates offset for strength and absolutely no signs of any internal problems. So glad I never drilled and filled etc.

[Ron Hill]

Kerk : What I was trying to get you to measure maybe un-measurable!

Try what Jeff did, just be careful.  If the underside if the hull above the rudder is not straight - then grind it to where it is. 

I only operate on the information that Gerry Douglas (the designer) gave me.  He said there was a ferrous grid not stainless plates. 

If you have a "weeping rudder" with rust stains running down the side - something is rusting inside and it's not the stainless!!