Work on rudder shafts, rudder cassettes, and some various hatches

Found a local guy who could cut the keyways for my rudder shafts. That solved a problem for me in that getting the shafts to Anchorage and having a shop cut them there would have been about 5 times the expense.

So I've roughed up the shafts prior to wrapping them with biaxial fiberglass where the blade will be. I've also started working on the rudder cassettes - squaring off the bottoms of them and filling some repair areas and pin holes from old glassing job.

I've also been giving hatches last coats of epoxy, and in the case of a couple outside ones, I vacuum bagged on some fiberglass cloth, using the vacuum mainly to bend it around the edges better than I've been doing.

Previous to this, I did some work on hatch frames: