Today I started out moving My Girl about a meter to the stb so i had room to start work on the port side.  Leaving enough room that i could work my way up the stb side fairing.  Then onto long boarding the transom dealing with all yesterdays compound. This took a good few hours, but man that transom is fair and smooth.  Once that nightmare job was over, i grabbed the belt sander and started to sand off the port side.  i did about a meter and a half before the novelty wore off.  Then I restarted stapling the ply strips to the hull.  1m down.....  many many to go.   I got a txt from Robert to say my steering wheel was ready... it looks excellent! pics below.