Has the boat yard called yet?

NO

But this has given me some time to contact Silverton's Owners Group and get a lot of great responses..

One fellow asked for some pictures and because of this we found something...

Above picture is Port side looking back...  What you see is the rudder shaft at the very top, the seal attached to the big nut and below is the "jam" nut...see pic below...

Again, you see the Starboard rudder shaft, the seal connected to the large nut and the "jam" nut...

So what's different....  Jam nuts are supposed to be jammed up against another nut like in the lower picture...

We'll have to see if it leaks while underway, but I've loosened both jam nuts (one was loose already of course), tightened down the large nut with the seal above it and then retightened the jam nuts...  This is the least of our worries, because we don't have much water coming in here...  Another owner of SOC suggested that by what he see's it might not be the rudder seals...he said look at all the mildew above both rudder shafts...if water came in the rudder seals it would run down, not up...so I'll look for water getting in somewhere else... by the way, there was mildew all around the rudder shafts...you don't see it now because I've cleaned it up as far back as I can reach...

 It's my port propeller shaft that's leaking for sure...although we had a suggestion for that too....maybe tomorrow I'll crawl back down into the hole... who knew I was a 6'4" contortionist!

Time for a dip in the pool :-)