Wooden Keel and the stern
With the rudder removed attention is drawn to the rudderpost and Sternpost. They both are solid. They have moved and dried with separation that has been filled with cotton in the past. Essentially really nice wood.
One part of damage is where an iron keel bolt has been used. It has rusted and blown the wood. Then at in the past resin has been used to fill the gaps. Looks awful more repairs to be done.
In one of the previous posts I mentioned the mixture of keel bolts. Here you can see 3 holes all in the same place. We have found a mixture of bolts. Some of the original bronze bolts were still present. Instead of removing all and replacing with new we have some holes with 1 replacement bronze, replacement iron and the hole above was a mixture of all 3. New holes had been drilled almost through the old at angles and all were still there!
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