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Eureka!!!
just printed off my foil profiles in Profili and now I can get to work on shaping the core.  Brilliant.

thanks again to Graham for his advice.  It was all the thinking I was doing that was making the process seem hard.  But the reality was much simpler. 

Thats a huge help Graham  thank you ever so much.  started to get the stuff together now.

Hello there
I am shortly to become the owner of N3237 .  (collect her after my holidays near end of this month)   I am interested in making a foam/carbon rudder as per the technical section of this site, which is brilliant by the way  big thanks to those who take time to create these articles.  
I know as the boat is old the gains will be insignificant using carbon but it's more to do with the enjoyment and gratification of building one myself, as I would never dream of spending that kind of cash to buy new!!  Oh and I am working on the waistline also!
Anyways..... does anyone have the dimensions or a profile plan of making a rudder.  (lifting type)  I would be very grateful.  or could tell me how to do it in idiots terminology .
I can visualise the use of a router creating depth in the foam and then shaping, but what are the depths??
I had a look at "Profili" as suggested but all this computer wizadry is just withchcraft to me I much prefer something on paper. 
Sorry that my first posting is just a bunch of demands!!!   and more to come re vacuum bagging! 

Regards to all,   may meet some of you at the more northwesterly events -Craig