I received the two six foot keel guards from Hamilton Marine today. They did a remarkable job in protecting these brass rods from shipping damage. I have never seen anything so well protected
First they taped the two pieces together with 3 bands of electrical tape. The they got a 1×3 piece of wood and took filament type shipping tape and ran that diagonally along the piece of wood. Them they took shrink wrap film and wrapped everything again. It must have taken them 15 minutes to wrap these. I was impressed