@neauoire

I don't understand how can a boat

it seems like it must just be continuous bailing out entropy, like having the boundary of your selves extended to the hull

(maybe this is just what it is to be alive, but easier to see because your eyes and skin are inside the boundary instead of at it)

@neauoire Poor things. These connect hull to rigging in a sturdy way?

I have rust to deal with this summer too, on tongue. I had already sanded and ground it down to shiny, coated, painted… but it bubbles up underneath somehow anyway.

What do you use for anti-rust coating on a boat?

@neauoire *tiny dancing cartoon particles of environmental moisture* wE'rE rEwRiTiNg YoUr BoAt iN rUsT

@neauoire
This image triggers both my arachnophobia and trypophobia. Well done, photo of just piece of rust.

@neauoire If you're going to replace, I suggest improving them. Get rid of that awful stress riser where the plate for no particular reason suddenly halves its thickness in a 90° cut.

And get a welded cover plate, which is pretty much the only way to get a proper seal around these. The slots never seal tight, just like yours didn't.

Then bed on butyl to deal with the miniscule movements without breaking the sealant.