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On the 12th of February 2010 a huge storm with speeds of up to 120 miles per hour or more causing a lot of damage over a twelve hour period. Unfortunately a lot of boats dragged their moorings including Silver Foam. Very little damage was done to her. Voilent gusts of wind pushed her for a mile dragging her mooring along with her right up towards my backyard. I watched in amazement as I looked out my kitchen and saw her pass by. An embankment of mud and gravel stretched out from the shoreline near where I lived and that embankment stopped Silver Foam from going any further. When the Storm had blown itself out I was able to walk down to the the boat and assess the damage done to her. She had a broken Tiller and a bent rudder shaft and no other damage had been done to the boat. With the help of a local boat man I was able to tow the boat back to where she was moored.and prepared to remave the rudder I waited for a fine day when the sea was flat calm. The first job I had to do was to secure the rudder by wrapping a line around and tying it to the stern cleat to prevent it from falling down on to the seabed. Then I removed the broken tiller from the tiller block that was mounted on the top of the rudder shaft. To remove the tiller block from the rudder shaft I had to use a puller to extract it from the shaft as it was held in place with a key. and three allen key threaded inserts which I removed. With the tiller block removed, the ruddershaft dropped from the rudder tube and held by the line that secured it to the boat.