Well; quite a bit to blog about - looks like Gerry has been very busy. I did lend a small designers hand this week but I cannot claim much credit!
So starting where we left off....
Cockpit:
The sole at this point, whilst bonded down, was still causing Gerry and onlookers concern about the bending we were seeing underfoot. However as the sides go on, plus a little taping to protect the deck and then the footchocks - all should be well!
Cockpit sole:
A thin layer or 165g glass all over the sole was added to protect the wood from all our stomping and dropping of screwdrivers and weather etc later on. This also has the benefit or stiffing the deck further. We actually extended the glass over the cedar batten (filleting first) then peel - plyed.
Next we added battens to increase the gluing area for the side panels (exactly as we did for the cockpit sole). The amount of bonding area that we have added is massive and lesser solutions may be appropriate!! Reinforcements for the deck gear (e-plate) were also added . For the chainplates we reinforced either side of the bulkhead with more layers of glass and another layer of 6mm ply.... should be stronger than the pins!!
E-plate shown here is for the spinaker ratchet flip-flop block.
Cockpit sides on - shown with fillets 
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