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We spent all day mounting a new rudder. He bought it as a fixer and when he took it on his first test sail the rudder and a big chunk of transom fell into 40 feet of water. Well, it took the better part of 4 hours to get the rudder mounted, 3 hours and 45 minutes of which was securing a plate of plywood to the rebuilt transom to accommodate a different rudder (from a Laser).

I'll let you know if it works, but after a long day, we got it to the point where I can take it out next weekend. My avatar is now of "Dreams." Better (action shots) pics when we're wet.[/img]

Well, I lied. I appear unable to find a program on my machine which will crop an image to 250 by 250... so SOON.

Shoot me your original by email and I'll be glad to crop and upload it for you - or look on the web for a freebie pic software named "Gimp" - that will do it for you..and more !

..... and too, if you upload to Photobucket.com, they have the editing tools right there for you. Very nice! and wow, a chunk of transom fell off! Bummer that! It's all included in the learning curve though. Best luck to you!

WOW! Sounds like a rough time!
Guess things will only get better from there!

As already stated, Gimp is great for your pc to edit images! EE turned me into a believer a while back!

Scott

This has actually been great, strange as that sounds. I now feel like this is MY boat. I have invested more than a little money into it. I have seen pretty much every angle and crevice of her, have passed through the "is this even worth it" barrier, and even left some skin in the hold... "Dreams" is really, truly my boat.

Ha-ha, love it! Share enough DNA with it and you bind yourself to it!

mcrandall wrote:Ha-ha, love it! Share enough DNA with it and you bind yourself to it!

I think we can all say that at one point or another.