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• Raven 31 Rudder Bearings

  Hi Mark, the boats called Dorado, and its parked in Westhaven at the moment. I'm moving it to Whitianga in August though.
  
  I might end up getting a marine engineer to do the rudder bearings, depending on if I have the time. Once the job is done I'll post how I did it.

  Posted: 2025-06-30 19:58   by Alex N   Replies: 1   Last: 2025-06-30 19:58

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• Raven 31 Rudder Bearings

  Hi Alex. I have to have my Raven 31 inspection before November, so hope mine will be ok. I expect they will be a standard NZ bearing size, so if you can get them out undamaged they should be able to be matched up.
  
  Had our Raven for 10 years, and do wish the was a document with complete specs on all parts.
  Ours is Skylark and we keep it a Gulf Harbour, Auckland
  
  We would appreciate you posting here what you did to get it sorted.
  
  Whats your boat name and where do you keep it?
  
  Kind Regards Mark

  Posted: 2025-06-29 19:08   by Mark Crichton   Replies: 1   Last: 2025-06-29 19:08

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• Raven 31 Rudder Bearings

  Hi everyone, I just bought a Raven 31 and there's lots of play in the rudder and I think the bearings need replacing. Does anyone know where I can get the parts from?
  Cheers

  Posted: 2025-06-27 14:30   by Alex N

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• Raven 26

  Just bought this old lady, she's a mark 2 so circa late 1980's I believe. The makr 1 had a ply deck/cabin whereas the mark 2 has a fibreglass deck/cabin. I'm searching for any informtion on these boats other than the little I can find online. I was hoping there may be an 'owners manual' like with a car but I'm now starting to think that other than the hull and deck, everything else is custom to the individual boat. We plan to restore this boat, the bones of her are pretty good but hasn't been maintained to a high level. We're new to sailing too so this will be interesting!

  Posted: 2025-02-17 08:42   by Andrew

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• Welcome Raven owners and friends.

  I manage the Raven website and have added this forum page to help interested people get in touch and help with questions.
  We have a Raven 31 which we have owned for 10 years.

  Posted: 2025-02-14 22:02   by Mark Crichton

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