23rd May

Rudder pintles final bolting with sealer.  Happy as very smooth with no binding spots from lock to lock and no rattles. Also made a delrin washer to take the weight so no stainless steel on stainless steel friction (except for the 12mm pins).  After mounting  - rudder removed and hull dropped down to level again.  (Have to jack the stern up about 40cm for fitting the rudder)  Bought a 316 stainless shaft for trimtab (10mm dia solid) and busy making gudgeons for mounting.  Will have split delrin bearings if I can figure out how to make them so they can be removed easly.  Lots of hours and not much to see.  Going to try make a horizontal axis windvane driving a tab on the rudder.

Bolted in deck hatch to have a break from stainless work.

My mast step under construction.  Hopefully mast and boom will be ready for packing for shipping from Poland tomorrow.