The diver's report is in, not good

I hired captain Ron (stop laughing), a USCG Master 100T at Columbia River Marine Assistance to dive the boat today and take pictures.  The good news is the shaft and prop are fine, the bad news is the rudder isn't.  The gouge is 4 inches long and 1/2 an inch deep.  After tightening the steering cables yesterday the wheel had been rotated 10 degrees off center and the rudder shaft had a slight bend in her, not allowing the last 10 degrees of rotation of the wheel without the top of the rudder scrapping the bottom of hull.

So ends our racing season, win some, loose some and run over some buoys.  I will be calling up Schooner Creek in the morning Monday to see what the cost will be.

Some of the other damage photos.  By the way Captain Ron is very good, next time I am calling him over the race committee boat.