Profile: Countrose Bearings provides rubber lined bearings and water lubricated bearings. Our bearings are used on rudder & propeller shafts in fishing vessels, tugboats, deep sea dredgers, leisure craft, luxury yachts and countless other sterngear applications. The lining of the bearing has shaped grooves, or flutes, designed specifically to optimise water lubrication, giving very low friction and helping to maintain hydrodynamic lubrication even at low speeds and high loads.