Some significant glasswork was required to install the new offset shaft log.

1. With the stern tube temporarily in place I could determine where to cut the rudder.

2. After cutting off the top five inches of the rudder, I epoxied that section off to the underside of the hull recreating the original hull profile.

3. I cut and shaped ¾-inch manufactured fiberglass into a profile that would fit the long stern tube and epoxied it to the new skeg.

4. Large batches of epoxy thickened with colloidal silica were squirted into gaps around the stern tube to fix it in place. Peel-ply laminate left a smooth finish.

5. The two-bladed folding Flex0Fold propeller was mounted on a corrosion resistant Aqualloy 22 shaft.