Mary Annie after a two week refit

In the middle of applying glass laminate to the rudder and installing new cutlass bearing.

A two week refit of Mary Annie this past month got her back in pretty good shape.  I sanded the bottom to knock off the crud and rolled on 6 coats of Petit Hydrocoat water based bottom paint.  I ground down the rudder and added 7 layers of glass and epoxy to beef it up a bit.  I took a grounding last year backing up and tweaked the rudder.  I hope this will keep it going for a decade more.  I painted on the sheer stripes with an ocean blue and buff color.  I had meant to do that initially but ran out of motivation after that long 5 year rebuild.  I repainted the bootstripe.   I changed out the motor mounts with mounts that had some adjustment to them.  I had to order another prop shaft because of scoring on the old one from what was said to be caused by lack of water to the cutlass bearing.  I also replaced the cutlass bearing.  So now she is ready of the next leg of the adventure as I make my way south from Carrabelle Florida to the keys and around and up the east coast.  That should start April or May of this year.  Cheers