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Moment of truth today, peeled back the plywood. Looking pretty good I would say. A little messy around the edges in places but that will tidy up ok. There was one slight void left- that's the problem working blind- but I've filled that now. Very happy that the hull is level on either side of where it cracked. The crack at the foredeck was just a hairline on the outside, so I glassed that, and then decided to throw a bit of glass on the inside too. Not very proud of that particular bit, I should have sanded back a bigger area, but it hadn't actually cracked on the inside so in not too bothered. Next job is the stern, but it's blowing half a gale here and the boatyard is very dusty, so I'm going to take the test of today off...

For Chessie I kept the sails bent to the sprits and had sail bags of Sunbrella made for each. They were easily lashed on the port-side cockpit seat. The mizzen assembly fit [on the seat] entirely within the cabin bulkhead and the transom. The bag for the mains’l and sprit was laid out with the luff and forward end of the sprit to aft. The sail bags were zippered and tapered for a loose fit and made smaller where the sprit extended beyond the sail’s luff. Only that part of the mains’l bag extended a little beyond the transom. Earlier I bagged the sails in a lightweight non waterproof material and stowed them in the cabin — with the sprits in a pair of cradles on top of the masts. I abandoned that when I had to de-rig in rain and stow throughly wet sail bags inside the cabin for road transport.