After two weeks at the visitors dock, she went up on the RVYC Ways.

With the help of John Booth and Barnucka, the bottom was repaired where the beach cut some nasty grooves in the hull (mostly below the waterline),  using a compound called polly fair ( i think) the rudder was removed, straightened and rebuilt. Bottom was painted and a new zinc was attached to the prop shaft.

The old zinc was long gone and some superficial corrosion was evident. Barnucka buffed it up and brought it back to near new condition. No dings out of the twin blades. Like new and functioning properly. Bought a gallon and a pint of ablative bottom paint from Trotac Marine. I have almost all of the pint remaining. Probably could have gotten by with just a gallon.

The C&C Smile (as Peter from RVYC foreshore called it), gap between the keel and the hull was filled with secoflex and the keel bolts were tightened where possible. Hard to reach two bolts below the mast.

Addressed the issue of chafing mooring lines by attaching a 3/8' galvanized chain bridle to the fore stay, draped over the stem and connected to a 3/4 inch nylon line by 3/4 inch galvanized shackles. Failsafe is 1 inch 'blue steel' poly-rope attached to the mast. If she comes ashore again, it just wasn't meant to be!

The rudder was not only drastically bent (not shown in this photo) but the bottom had been ground off by the sand

Honest dad, I don't think there ever was a rudder here!

The photographer who shot this called it art. (Not how I would describe it but...)

Me, Barnucka and Dad wondering where the rudder is...

Me and Dad viewing the damage

Me and John Booth setting about fixing her.

Patching complete and water-proof primer applied

Keel patched and primed where it was sitting in the sand at the beach

Rudder removed for straitening at machine shop

Rudder straitened and rebuilt

Look at that spankin bottom pain!