One must take some amusement as this ghastly cutlass bearing project careens out of control. If nothing else, you can REALLY see where the Swedes build a really big, tough boat.
This is a picture of where the rudder used to be. No, that’s not the rudder – it’s just to hang the massive thing off of. Look at the picture in yesterday’s post if that doesn’t make sense. I guess the white part was where the bearing was, you can clearly see where the fiberglass was pulled back to get access to it.
On the plus side, that space between the rudder and the rudder post grew some gnarly barnacles the season before last. The bottom painters missed it and there were barnacles the size of quarters living up in there. Some deft work with a putty knife, a stick, a bit of cloth and some bottom paint cleaned it up, but it’s never really had a goo coat of anti-fouling. So I’ve got that going for me.
Whoop! There it is!
Yes, right there on the ground. I didn’t even try to pick this monster up to see how heavy it was. I suppose I should have maybe put a moose or a small pickup next to it to provide scale.
I’m thinking it might be time to reconsider a change to this blog. I wonder if bustedassboatparts.blogspot.com is take.
