{"id":592,"date":"2020-03-17T17:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-18T00:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sling2.slantalpha.com\/wp\/?p=592"},"modified":"2020-04-01T08:28:38","modified_gmt":"2020-04-01T15:28:38","slug":"closing-up-the-rudder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sling2.slantalpha.com\/wp\/?p=592","title":{"rendered":"Closing Up The Rudder"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>With a good rudder skin, I was able to prepare, fit and secure the skin to the structure. Using techniques that I&#8217;ve learned from building similar components, the rudder went together smoothly. 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