What is that!

After the excitement of getting Lucy M's engine going, a little task arose from the experience. The rotating shaft had caused a small trickle of water to find its way into the yacht. This was easily halted by squirting some grease into the stern gland (where the propeller shaft goes through from the inside to the outside of the hull), but the only way to do this was to squeeze through a narrow gap and attach the grease gun to a grease nipple and try and pump in the grease. An easier solution was needed. So I purchased a stern gland greaser and after a number of trial and error attempts, managed to attach the grease tube to the stern gland. Now I can apply grease easily from the cabin. The object in the picture is the very greasy stern glad - minus nipple!