Bella in the air

This is Bella's bow out of the water. You can just see the rack she is resting on - and you can see why she needed some new protective paint! Pete wants you to know that the light coloured oblong toward the bottom of the hull on the unridged section is called a sacrificial annode. It protects the steel from being worn away by the activity of the brass propeller. Some of you may understand this. Elizabeth knows that there are four of them. Barry tells us that they have a few more years of sacrificing themselves left before they will need replaced.