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Right then.. I know nobody reads this but I'm going to write in it anyway.

Neraida is currently out of the water undergoing some serious maintenance. Her Keel is "off" and she has has all of the antifouling removed from her keel, and extensive scraping and sanding of her bottom, and so far, is primed and "boot topped". The keel is about to have an epoxy primer applied ready for it's CopperCoat.
During the dismantleing, we have discoverd the cause of the "thunk" from the keel, whereby the plates that hold the keel on via a stainless pin have badly corroded with some 4mm of play. These plates are currently at an engineers being welded and re-drilled. All the keel bolts were found to be is excellent shape with no sign of any corrosion, apart from the use of galvanised steel washers inside the boat, which just disintergrated!
We have also discovered that the worm gear used for swinging the keel up and down is bent, however this is not a major issue as Neraida's keel is always down!

This year she is going to have a lot of work done on her, so I figured I should document it, and the blog is the easiest way!

Antifouling and polishing today... pictures later!