rudder stock

But it may have got in through the rudder stock housings.

Rolling in a moderate sea, a rudder stock cracked making steering difficult.

Moondance suffered damage to her rudders and rudder stocks.

Direct drive, in which an actuator is attached to the steering quadrant, at the top of the rudder stock inside the boat.

The rudder stock is of aluminium alloy.

Part of a ship's stern above the waterline that extends beyond the rudder stock (see nautical terms)

The Gull's rudder stock broke the surface and, spitting lagoon water from his mouth, Hal threw a loop of the painter around the pintle.

Before the 16th century most sailing vessels were sufficiently small that they could be steered by a single individual working the handle of the tiller which was directly connected to the rudder stock and therefore the rudder.

In the ABS Rules for Building and Classing Steel Vessels, it is defined as the distance on the summer load line from the fore side of the stem to the centerline of the rudder stock.

A tiller or till is a lever attached to a rudder post (American terminology) or rudder stock (English terminology) of a boat that provides leverage in the form of torque for the helmsman to turn the rudder.

Chaot had reportedly been nursing a damaged rudder stock for some time, but as water was coming into the boat in increasing quantities, Boschmann decided to abandon ship as soon as other yachts on passage to the Caribbean could come to his assistance.

She anchored that afternoon, but waves breaking over the after deck foiled attempts to rig the heavy-duty wrecking pumps into the after hold (into which the water was coming, through the rudder stock) since it was impossible to remove the hatch without allowing more water to get below in the process.