Rudder Bearings and Accessories
Products Overview
Tides Marine manufactures a wide variety of rudder bearings, rudder sleeves, rudder tubes and rudder ports (with and without seals). This product line provides builders, engineers, naval architects and repair facilities with solutions to most any problem they may encounter.
Most of these Rudder Bearing products are precision-machined from UHMW-PE, an ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene. UHMW is extremely durable, abrasion resistant and does not absorb water. It's coefficient of friction (when water-lubricated) approximates that of Teflon in these bearing products.
The Tides' designs can be used in fiberglass, steel and aluminum vessels and are installed as standard equipment in a variety of vessels including «sport boats» «work boats» «sport fishermen» and «mega-yachts» in excess of 150'.
These designs eliminate metal-on-metal (in some cases, dissimilar metals) contact in the vessel's steering systems.
UHMW is an excellent alternative to a conventional cast bronze units in that it is significantly smaller, lighter and quieter. Like all Tides Marine Products it is watertight, requires no periodic adjustment or maintenance, is inert to electrolysis and there is no metal-on-metal abrasion.
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