And... Filled the side in. Should look perfect if I can find the right colour paint. And the bit that was under the sticker should look better too.
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The delaminated bulkhead. Not sure why I ever thought that squishing glue into the delaminated bit at the top was going to solve this. Every place where a hole had been put through the bulkhead, there was delamination. This is where the hiking straps went through,... This is the drain hole. It is like this on both sides of the boat and forward and aft on the bulk head. I tried just chipping these bits away so I could fill them but found the delamination extended a long way in every direction from the holes. So it was back to plan A - replace the bulkhead completely. I'm pretty sure this is a bad idea. When the boat was built, this was probably one of the first bits, with everything then attached to it. I was a little concerned that the boat might change shape when I took it out so screwed a couple of bits of wood across the boat just in case but it doesn't look like anything has moved. Getting it out should have been a problem. I was figuring that this was going to be my excuse...
More bits from a while ago. The additional bit attached by the thwart Additional screws in the side into the net bit. (Yup, one of my screws missed. This matches one of the original screws that had missed everything previously. Lesson learned here is that making a pilot hole from the inside would have been better than trying to position the screws by sight). All this made me worried about what was under the sticker on starboard side. But actually, it was pretty good. Just hadn't been filled evenly enough to hide the screw holes or painted. Nothing broken though! I also decided to chip away the epoxy from the front of the thwart as it had cracked and would probably let water get into the wood.