And this is a special report. The day and a half of suntanning came to an abrupt end onboard on Warrior this afternoon when some bright light decided to climb back in the coffin sized under deck quadrant area of the boat to discover - to their horror only the last inch of Rudder Bearing supporting the rudder - normally there is five inches in for that job.
So what did they do? Well this discovery did come just before happy hour so. . . - OK I'm Kidding!
They climbed right under there and hammered it back into the tube with DCB's size twelves - and life onboard is instantly transformed and fast and fun again.
Here is what that message from the boat looked like:
"Grinder,
Rudder prob fixed!
Well MacGivered anyway....the lower rudder bearing had moved up approx
4" (only 5" holding it in the
boat!) We dropped the sails for an hour, removed the quadrant, hammered it back
down, replaced quadrant, cut plastic shims to hold the quadrant down, and are
now back on our way doing 16-17knots in 21wind Fk ya!
Thank god we found this out before malikai (edit: I detect Chuggy's spelling here!) or fear rudder
may have been ripped out of boat and @ the bottom
Back in the game and red lining it for wild women and
maitai"s
Cheers "dude"
And good thing too because I was threatening to send Chuggy the plans for Teef's new office so he could be estimating and that way at least spending the time productively.
Stay tuned for an updated ETA!
Grinder (BlogMeister)
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