Plenty of Epic rudder covers have had issues.
There is a photo on this site somewhere of Oscar with his cover taped up.
We had a lone of a boat and the cover fell off and went missing.
There may be a couple of different versions, as the new ones seem to have the problem solved.
Get onto Epic, they are not that dear and they have them in stock, but really, they just shouldn't come off and I for one would like to see Epic foot the bill for this, it is obviously a known problem.
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