HOW TO REPAIR YOUR PRIDE AND JOY

Firstly, a small crack in the plywood. It was very cheap timber, with lots of voids, and the ply has delaminated. More of that later, but we want to keep sailing today.

The easiest thing to do is to simply put a couple of screws in to reinforce it for now, this will stop the split getting any bigger. After the permanent repair, which really only means getting some epoxy into the crack, the screws can come out again