On one outing last season my luff reefing lines got tangled such that I disconnected them just to get the sail up and start sailing. Now I can’t remember how they go back. I have the though the jam cleat and block and through the holes in the sail, but where are they anchored?

On another note, how do you keep the aft reefing lines out of the way when using the stack pack?

Re-reading my last post, I see that I have, without meaning to, implied that the production BC26 can't be a good looking boat.  I did not mean that!  It is a good-looking boat, it really is.  Just not quite as pretty as the prototype in those magazine photos.

OP, as you've already experienced both a Shrimper and a Red Fox, seems to me you'll have a good idea of what to expect?

My BC 26 is a pre production prototype and, imho, very much in the Shrimper/Crabber camp as regards being a small sailer that is trailerable. Mine not a trailer sailer...at least to me! Current BC 26s differ in configuration.

The unknown here seems to be what exactly is the configuration of an inboard BC23? Shaft or Sail drive? Legs required to dry out?
Mine sits on a sort of tripod, formed by the keel bulb (drop keel, not centreboard type arrangement) and the two rudder stocks. The yard did not recommend that I left it on a semi drying mooring full-time, it's  very hard on the boat (hence it lives permanently afloat).
I'd be surprised  if an inboard BC23 dries out like this? Maybe a shaft drive exiting via a small skeg is tucked up enough for it to sit on its hull bottom? Anyone have photos please?

That said, where I live many Crabbers, Shrimpers, Cape Cutter even a Golant Gaffer and the like do regularly dry out here. Some require beaching legs. Some old "banger boats" appear not to even bother with legs (when obvioulsy they really should) and still survive years...
However, in the 35 years I've been watching this river, I've seen bilge keel Centaurs and a Southerly lift keeler sunk by conflabs with their mooring chains! The very lovely Golant Gaffer didn't  stay long....even here in Golant!

My first boat was a Norfolk Gypsy with a Yanmar 10hp inboard https://www.neilthompsonboats.co.uk/preowned/norfolk-gypsy-turaco/.  This is the same boat that I owned - she had a navy blue hull when I had her.  Although the same length as the BayRaider, she weighed nearly three times as much and was reassuringly solid.

As with the BC26 mentioned above, I never intended to use her as a trailerable day sailer, flitting from place to place.  But she could be towed to a new sailing area at the start of each season, before boredom had a chance to set in.  That involved a tow car with a large engine (a Vauxhall Senator) and finding a new secure mooring each year, usually a marina with pontoons.  An expensive way of going about things with a relatively small boat and this was the reason why I eventually sold her.  On the other hand, secondhand values for older Gypsies have tended to rise rather than fall, compensating for sometimes eye-watering operating costs.

Voting has now closed and our ambitions for use in 2024 are greater than our actual use in 2023.  None of the respondents plan for only a little use this year but illness, family obligations and work can get in the way.  I expected to be in the 16-30 day range but bad weather has already knocked three days off my plans.