18 th April

Been busy with other things the last 2 days but managed a bit on Nuts.

Went through my teak and prepared some for laminating for the tiller.  Gave it a fine run through the thicknesser to clean the 25 year old spider shit off and gave it a good wipe down with acetone before laminating.

Cleaned it up this morning and gave it a rough cut out on the bandsaw then finished it off with hand plane and router and gave it a sand.  Drilled and fitted the stainless steel mounting straps to check the width on the rudder.  All good.  I will only drill the hole through the rudder once it is trial fitted after my pintle welding problem is resolved.  Going to over drill all the through holes in the rudder and epoxy fill and redrill to make a good seal for no water ingress into the plywood core.  Afternoon spent in Horta and marina so not much done on Nuts.  Going to tackle the companionway washboards next.