3rd November

Drilled and bolted bottom pintle into position.

Welded up 4mm 316 stainless backing plates and fitted onto web that has a total of 20 layers of glass in this area.  I think the rudder will break before this pulls out.  Once this was all fitted I removed it all and drilled out the 10mm bolt holes to 17mm diameter.

I coated the inside of the holes with epoxy (ply and frame timber) to let it soak into the wood then filled with epoxy mix.  Once cured I will redrill the 10mm hole in the middle.  This way hopefully there is no chance of moisture getting into contact with wood if there was ever a leak past the bolts.

Got to wait for epoxy to cure so faired in the tops of the bulkheads and frames and rebated the ply doubler down the middle of the coachroof.