Where do you get things like fittings for rudders etc.?

[Rigadog]

What's the best source for rudder fittings?

[MiddleAgesMan]

Jamestown would be a start but they didn't have what I needed for the GIS. Michael Storer shows specific fittings on the plans so I searched on brand and model and found a distributor (in CA?) who had what I needed.

[Steve Lansdowne]

Also try http://www.duckworksbbs.com/catalog.htm or Hamilton marine (Google them for their web site).

[sidsail]

This company in Germany has most anything you could want for a wood boat. The staff speak English but the catalog is written in German.
http://www.toplicht.de/

[redbopeep]

The choices given will work for smaller sized things--if your boat is large, you can make a pattern and have things cast (this is what we did) and its actually quite a low cost option to get exactly what you want--as long as YOU make the pattern that is :)

Best of luck!

[Jay Greer]

The Port Townsend foundry has the greatest collection of gudgeon, pintal and rudder head patterns of any place I know of.
Jay

[Rigadog]

Thanks you all. Haven't started to build yest as I can't narrow down what I want.

[Chip-skiff]

For standard-type rudder fittings (i.e. not reproduction-grade, bronze, and incredibly costly) try: http://www.bosunsupplies.com (http://www.bosunsupplies.com/)

I'm looking at a page of stainless-steel pintles and gudgeons, by Schaefer, for dinghies and keelboats to 20 ft. Huge inventory, if you have the patience to click and scroll.

Chip