Hobie rear carrying handle and rudder alignment?

I am officially 11 days (and better weather) away from putting the new, second-hand Revolution in the water so I can leap to the top of the AOTY Leader Board.

If anyone has a 2014 Revo 13, is the rear carry handle threaded through the metal pad eye where the rudder cables run?  It seems like a very odd place to put that handle - where it could tangle in the rudder cables.

Second question: with the rudder control handle pointed directly to the bow - parallel with the keel - should the rudder also be directly inline with the keel?  I read online that when the handle is straight ahead, the rudder should be about 20-degrees to the right?

People shouldn't confuse me. 

Can you post or send me a picture of the rudder lines running through the padeye? that seems very strange.

As far as the steering goes, the handle will not be straight forward.  A 20 degree offset sounds about right.

Here you go.  You don't get to see pictures of a Revo's butt often.  Some show the handle in close to this location, but don't show the twist and stow cables.

The SS pad eye was installed in the wrong location....should have been forward of the center up/down lines a couple of inches.

The SS pad eye was installed in the wrong location....should have been forward of the center up/down lines a couple of inches.

That's what I thought.  The pad eye doesn't seem to affect the twist-and-stow lines.  I'll probably leave it alone and add a new pad eye couple of inches forward for the handle.

Thank you.

"hee, hee," he said butt!!

Where is the rear bungee that holds your rudder down on deck? 

Where is the rear bungee that holds your rudder down on deck?

Hanging loose.  I try not to keep them under tension in storage.

I just looked at the photos of the Revo 13 at KayakShed.com, and in those pictures, the handle is attached to that pad eye, in that location, and the handle itself gets tucked under the bungees that hold the rudder down.

I might have spent the day stressed and confused if you hadn't asked me about that bungee.  Now I can go back to being happily clueless.

The SS pad eye was installed in the wrong location....should have been forward of the center up/down lines a couple of inches.

Last year, I thought the same thing. Although it looks out of place, if you pull the screws you'll find that they are machined and have threaded brass grommets molded into the plastic.
I don't like the placement either, but it is located where they designed it to be. (The outback is actually worse.)
If you keep the bungee on the handle, the tension will keep it out of the way. You can also un-thread it from under the padeye and reinstall with a larks-head knot. This will shorten the length (increasing the tension with the bungee) and keep it wrapped around the upper portion of the padeye - away from the rudder lines.

Or just leave it alone and it'll be just fine*. Sometimes as a new boat owner, we tend to overthink some of the smaller things.

(*After farting with mine for way too long, I ended up returning the padeye / handle back to original orientations and re-engineered the bungees. Not because it needed it, but it made me feel better about having done something different.)

"hee, hee," he said butt!!

Well, it's pleasantly rounded, and it has a crease down the center...

Last year, I thought the same thing. Although it looks out of place, if you pull the screws you'll find that they are machined and have threaded brass grommets molded into the plastic.

I don't like the placement either, but it is located where they designed it to be. (The outback is actually worse.)
If you keep the bungee on the handle, the tension will keep it out of the way. You can also un-thread it from under the padeye and reinstall with a larks-head knot. This will shorten the length (increasing the tension with the bungee) and keep it wrapped around the upper portion of the padeye - away from the rudder lines.

Or just leave it alone and it'll be just fine*. Sometimes as a new boat owner, we tend to overthink some of the smaller things.

(*After farting with mine for way too long, I ended up returning the padeye / handle back to original orientations and re-engineered the bungees. Not because it needed it, but it made me feel better about having done something different.)

The smaller things?  Since this Hobie arrived, my newest hobby seems to be Stand in the Garage and Obsess, and I've over-thought everything.  Every. Single. Thing.

Thanks.  It helps to know I'm not alone.   

Not because it needed it, but it made me feel better about having done something different.)

 

Sorry couldn't help myself. Your not alone, when we all got our new toy boat we were just like you (looking, wondering and over thinking)

There is supposed to be a bungee loop that pulls the handle away from the padeye so it isn't laying across the cables. It should be on the starboard side, and about a foot or two forward of where the padeye for the handle is mounted. Tuck the handle in that loop and forget about it. Problem solved.

There is supposed to be a bungee loop that pulls the handle away from the padeye so it isn't laying across the cables. It should be on the starboard side, and about a foot or two forward of where the padeye for the handle is mounted. Tuck the handle in that loop and forget about it. Problem solved.

Got it.  The bungee is there, just out of the pictures.  Thanks.