I picked up Busca tonight from the fiberglass shop and she's looking mighty fine! The speedo thru-hull, the sink drain, and the bulkhead instrument holes are all filled and a couple of worn-and-poorly patched gelcoat spots on the hull where the bunks pressed are now looking like new. The sink thru-hull, aluminum tubing glassed in, looks good and he said it was tough to get out and that he had to cut from both inside the boat and outside. Curiously, the aluminum tube that is part of the sink is in poor shape, badly corroded. I think I should pull the hoses on the cockpit drains and inspect that tubing. I will at least carry wooden plugs to fit them. After looking at the wiring rat's nest again, I decided to start almost from scratch (like so many remodeling projects that seem to ever expand). There were at least two extra pairs of wire running up the compression post that had long since been disconnected from anything. When I'm done, it may not be any better, but at least it'll be a mess that I understand. Plus, I'll have a very similar arrangement on the Tartan; not much more complex. Unbeknownst to me, mud-daubers have obviously long held residence inside the compression post. I removed about a cup and a half of mud, some old, some housing live pupae. This weekend she gets new wiring and the new fishfinder installed and hopefully next week gets some new canvas. Tod Mills M17 #408 BuscaBrisas www.bright.net/~htmills