Uh oh.

We may have a big setback. Neil was up all night tossing and turning, and wasn't here when I woke up this morning. I called him on his cell phone and found him on his way to the boat (Uh-oh. He should be on his way to work...something's wrong...) Turns out he dropped the rudder last night. From what I can gather (bad cell phone connection) he found a bit of corrosion on the rudder stock. He's thinking that the worst-case scenario is that we will have to rebuild the entire rudder, because he's concerned about crevice corrosion affecting the rudder's strength. Now, we haven't had any experts look at it yet, or done any research on what it entails, but he sounds very demoralized about it. He is thinking that making a new rudderstock (skilled labor on high-grade stainless steel) is going to be wildly expensive. Not to mention that he will have to add: "build, fair, and finish a  new fiberglass rudder" to his already overwhelming list of projects. AAARGH! Why can't anything be easy????.

On a more positive note, our new Italian faucets and shower hardware arrived yesterday: that was a fun box to open!!!