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I'll sum up the last month. Everything was looking good, but the centerboard was still jammed. This was potentially an expensive problem as I couldn't figure out how to get the board out without going under the boat. However after a few days it dawned on me that the damn thing was buoyant, so no matter what I did to get it out again, it would come up, and I had a rope on it. So I bashed it out with a bit of wood I found in a skip, and spent the money I was going to spend on SCUBA gear on the boatyard grinding it down instead.
I now had no centreboard but was fed up sitting about, so we decided to leave the Marina and see how she handled under power. Turns out that quite a lot of water gets an open centerboard slot, even at low speed. We got as far as Portsmouth Harbour entrance before we turned around - although the pump was keeping up, I was emptying it into the sink and the 19mm drain pipe was struggling to keep up.
Although our mission was largely a success I did notice water in a compartment I hadn't noticed before - right under the sink, at the back of the centerboard case. I pumped and sponged this out but it refilled. I did it again, tissue dried it and an hour later could feel water apparently coming through the fibreglass. Bugger. Wherever it was coming from it was salty and was getting in with the boat not moving, which meant it was a problem. So she came out on the hoist, and a few weeks later is still on the trailer while we try to figure it out.
Looks like 2016 is a no sailing year after all, ho hum.