Hey Robbin!' You are kickin butt! With respect to the fiberglass around the pin...I am wondering if someone may have used epoxy to fabricate and exact fit on the pin. The kind of thing where either you fill the hole with epoxy them drill it, like you did your rudder (nice work by the way) or fill the hole with epoxy and the put the pin in there covered in parting compound...then pulled the pin and had a perfect hole. For me, I cheated......I got some bronze bushings from Ace hardware and epoxied them into the hole from both sides. Like you, when I get Dauntless stripped I could see where someone had been there before. I still had gelcoat, but it was obvious that there had been a half a$$ed attempt at a blister repair. My guess is, since she did not have a trailer, a boat yard did it and it was a rush to get her into the water again as yard costs mounted. I only guess this because she had obviously continued to blister under the new barrier boat that was applied. The hull was WET. When I went after all those blisters they would literally shoot acidic fluid out of some of them. I opened every one up...some were large...removed all the damaged laminate ...and then she sat with them open for months on end in AZ's single digit humidity to dry them out. Filled the small ones and replaced the glass laminate on the larger ones. Followed Interlux's instructions explicitly and have had not one problem on the last 5 years. knock on wood! Hang in there ....you are making great progress!! She's gonna be a great boat again and something tells me you two have some great adventures awaiting! Sean M23 "Dauntless" M17FD "Sneakers" www.sailhavasu.com www.havasumontgomerys.piczo.com