Trunk and keel progress

The extender boards on the wooden centerboard trunk are ready to be installed. The trunk mortises in the keel for the trunk are nearly complete. A second threaded pad is being welded onto the trunk liner, port side, to pull its oil-canned sides tightly against the inside walls of the wooden trunk. It was too cold to paint the engine today.
I replaced the bottom half of frame 30, which was broken. Because there was no planking around it, I left it oversize, to be faired when the keel and garboards are installed.
Jeff pulled the stern tube and finished removing the rudder stock today. When Luke built the rudder, the lower end of the stock was surrounded by a piece of brass tubing (to line the wooden walls of the rudder tube), the bottom 7 inches of which were flattened and screwed into the stern post. It was this tube which bound against the rudder stock and prevented it from coming out. It will be replaced.
McMaster-Carr sells brass tubing, apparently of the correct size, which we will order tomorrow.
The stern post is badly checked. The checking is particularly bad between the exit of the rudder tube and the bung around the lower end of the first floor-to-stern-post bolt. Refusing to replace the stern post, I consented to fabricate and install a dutchman between the new stern post liner and the bolt.
Pending:

• Receipt of water heater
• Install stern post dutchman
• Order brass tubing
• Initiate lamination of frame ends