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Click on image at left to see the counter timber and the numbered frames. The red outlines are the areas of rot, soft, or missing wood. At the right, and below, there are some pictures of frame 40 and the part of the very long counter timber that has the cutlass bearing in it. It is punky in the end grain at about 1" depth. |
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| Click on each picture to see a much larger view of it. Refer back to the first "drawing" image upper left for reference location of frame numbers discussed. |  |
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| At right, there are several pictures of the counter timber and the sternpost. We are not so worried about the cut-out here at the sternpost/countertimber interface. It was a small area of rot that was cut out further by a curious yardworker. The cut was mostly in the sternpost not the counter timber. |  |
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The photos show the gribble hole just in front of the rudder shaft. At the deepest it is about 1 7/8" deep. There is a smaller "crack" that extends up behind the rudder shaft 3 or 4 inches at the area just aft of the shaft. It is more shallow further aft but remains a crack for about 10". These are clear from the photos below. |  |
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The cross section of the countertimber at the point where the rudder shaft goes thru it is: 9 7/8" across the top, 7" deep and with rabbets cut into the bottom sides for the blanking, its bottom face is 7 3/4" wide. |
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To the left, there are images of the port side of the counter timber and stern post. | ||
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To the left, there are images of the frames looking back from the engine area (frame 39 looking back) and just behind frame 45 at the transom. | ||
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Above and at left, the soft areas around the rudder shaft are highlighted. There is about 3/4" of solid wood along the entire starboard side and a bit more than 1" solid along the port side of the metal tube. The countertimber is 9 7/8" wide at this point. | ||
| Below, and right, the countertimber is in generally good condition between all the frames as seen. |  |
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