Lydia asked me yesterday, "What would you like to do on your birthday?"
"Work on the boat - same as last year and 2009!" :{))

So, today, I'll continue removing anything which doesn't look all that great
in the stern part of my skeg, recently available now that the rudder's
dropped.

A massive (well, for any "blister" type of experience) amount of water came
out of some test holes Lydia opened, so I got out the grinder and created
the grand canyon, in effect.

The nature of the layup, a two-part hull, and having to do the
joining/taping in a tight space with a 60°-ish curve (where the rudder fits
into the rear of the skeg) meant that there were some open parts between the
hull layup and the taping inside. We'll pack those with glass chop resin,
and then go about laying up from there on out.

I'm of mixed mind as to whether I include pictures of all that in the bottom
job or the "drop it" section on the rudder. Probably the rudder, or we'd
never have been able to do it.

Pix later, when it's finished.

L8R

Skip, older but not much wiser, probably :{))

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