Abstract: A marine craft steering assembly comprises a rudder stock mountable on a craft for steering movements, and a rudder blade mounted on the stock to partake of steering movements therewith and to swing relatively to the stock to a raised position if the blade encounters an obstruction. The stock has an internal space extending fore-and-aft with an opening through one edge, as for example, the aft edge, and an inner wall facing the opening and being curved throughout at least a part of its extent. A pivot boss on the stock traverses the stock internal space, and the rudder blade has a curved internal surface pivotally mounted on the boss. The blade curved internal surface has a gap which may be passed over the boss to enable the blade internal curved surface to be positioned on the boss when the blade is inserted through the opening in the stock edge into the stock internal space.

Abstract: A marine craft steering assembly comprises a rudder stock mountable on a craft for steering movements; a rudder blade mounted on the stock to partake of steering movements therewith and to swing relatively to the stock to a raised position if the blade encounters an obstruction. The blade is biased to its raised position, and a manually operable device, which may be a tiller, is cooperable with the blade for resisting swinging of the blade lower portion to the raised position and for swinging the blade from its raised position to its lowered position. The stock is releasably pivotally mountable on a craft hull and is locked in mounted position thereon by the aforesaid manually operable device movably mounted on the stock.