Extra!

  

Here you can see the pretty brass rudder extensions our fabricator friend, Bob made for us.  Linda took the original rudders down to the local machine shop and had them cut about three inches off the bottom of them.  Ray attached the extensions.  Linda tightened the bolts, and attached the new zincs to them.  She also attached the big plate zinc on the back and the two shaft zincs.
 

We also got brand new props!  The starboard one attached pretty easy, but the shop manager had to get a dye tool for Ray to fix the threads on the port side shaft where the employee took the old prop off and messed up the threads where he beat it with a hammer!

And the special addition we are so excited about...CUTTERS!  See that blade behind the prop?  That is one of the blades on the cutters that will cut nets or lines that get in the prop!  No more dodging crab traps and fish traps!  Can't wait to blast right through them at about seven miles an hour!