6th May

Great day hiding in bed from the rain this morning surfing the net but  had to settle accounts so ventured out.  Got  to keep my accounts sweet by prompt payments.  Very wet day so not much happened.  Did remove rudder and drilled out bolt holes for filling.

Over drilled holes saturated with neat epoxy and then stuffed with fiber and silica filled epoxy.  Going to let that cure for a while and then refit the rudder and redrill the holes in the middle.  Bolts 10mm dia and epoxy holes drilled to 17mm so should have at least 3mm solid epoxy sleeve around the bolt.

Gave the tiller mounting straps a bit of a wizz on the polishing linen wheel.  A bit more shiny but Hey Ho five out of ten is good enough for me. (life is short)

Put the tape on the port side in the prep for spraying the hull.  A bunch of masking to do still but weather is still iffy till maybe Thursday.  

My buddy Jeff stirred up my brain so got to maybe order some goodies for sideways thinking.  He didnt build eleven thousand boats because he is stupid!  Retired now and busy finishing another world cruiser for himself.

My boat spraying experience is about 1 on a scale of 10 so should be fun. Never too old to learn though!!