There was a small but nagging leak that was leading to some water in the bilge. The cause actually turned out to be a nearly failed cockpit drain hose. As this is under the waterline, full failure could have been catastrophic! It also meant that in order to replace it, I had to dive under the boat and stick a plug in the drain thru-hull hole. Getting the tubing over the fiberglass involved 30 minutes of struggling in a tight space with astroglide.
We hauled out in Sausalito at Spaulding Marine. Our poor old rudder was looking pretty worn out. Spaulding machined a a new bronze shaft for us, and we shaped and built a new rudder out of marine-tek plywood using pretty close to the original design.
Another big project. We worked with Spaulding Center for Wooden boats, they were great! We had them haul the boat and and do the bottom job. They let us work there to do our own topsides since it was low season around the Holidays. We wound up using Awlgip in Sky Blue, with the roll and tip method.
Overall a much more joyful project than deck repair haha. Running the bootstripe lines was particularly fun.
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