Glad you are still happy. Lovely boat and agree the finish was better then.
Yes, our boat was on the hard at Bucklers. We bought her in mid 2001 and got a job abroad a year later. She was out of the water for the 2 years we were away. Came back and moved on board July 04 and lived aboard most of the time since.
Storage is poor for the size of boat but adequate for us given there are only 2 aboard most of the time.
We haven't gone for the Maxi roach again - yet. Only for cost reasons. We'll let the original main wear out first. I agree it works well and seems to provide more discipline to the sail during furling as well as being a better sail shape. We've thrown a generator, watermaker, bimini etc at her instead.