Melina arrived in Guernesy to find that the rudder was no longer attached to the keel! We dried out on the grid to view the problem and found the bottom of the rudder was more than 0.25m away from where it should have been. After a few phone calls Marine and General Engineers appeared. After making a replacement pintal they came down with jacks and pieces of wood, with a little help from Nevin and Ian they moved the rudder back into place and welded on the new pintal just before the tide returned.
We left on the 2nd Sept and motored across the channel in calm conditions to Studland Bay, off Poole. We then watche a demonstration of the Marines lifting RIBs out of the water with a helicopter and the crew being hoisted into the helicopter.
Posted by ian at September 4, 2004 01:24 PM