5th May

Lazy Sunday morning and spent hours chatting to my friend Jeff from way back in Capetown.  Got lots of good ideas from him.

Did a bit of Stainless Steel polishing on pintles and jacked up the cradle high enough to test mount the rudder.

Tiller fitted at a good angle for my taste and rudder is nice and free turning from lock to lock with no rattling or binding so pintles must be lined up OK.  Now can remove it all and overdrill the bolt holes and epoxy fill for redrilling and do a bit more polishing.  Crappy rainy weather tomorrow so good for polishing stainless and starting to think about trim tab.