Rain, rudders & rafts.

 Glassing the rudders Glassman painting the hatches continues.  Today,  between showers, I sanded both rudders which had their faces and edges glassed. I then primed both.  

It struck me that I've lost time working due to wet weather. The BOM statistics reveal that we've had over  300mm of rain so far this month over 18 days of rain.  On the days that it's not raining,  I'm either catching up with paid work out waiting for the grounds to dry.  It had been wet like this for months,  la nina year.     

3 April.

Today the rudders were sanded and another smear of epoxy applied to all small imperfections.  

Also,  the cheek plates,  or tiller stops,  were added in another small step forwards.  Weather is not raining,  but water lays everywhere and further flooding rain is expected  next Wednesday. To be caught at sea last week would have been calamitous. 

Reading "The Old Man and the Sea". A tale of four older men mounting a self made raft constructed from plastic tubing, and seeing of across the North Atlantic Sea.  Its quite instructive for Tiki sailors ad the Tiki hulls themselves are very raft like.  Litres heartening to hear of the men feeling secure as they drifted westward at 2 mph.