After a couple of hours loading and unloading the storage spaces in the teardrop, I have the spare in the forward compartment, as originally planned.
I had to try a bunch of ways to position stuff before I found a way to make everything fit with little chance of heavy objects (jack, axle stands, etc) becoming projectiles on rough roads (or dragging the trailer over a curb as I did when first learning to tow it).
Since I won’t be needing the spare and jack any time soon, or very often (I hope), they are stowed snugly and with restraints, but won’t be convenient to access. With a little foresight, I packed a plastic sheet to put over the mattress if the spare is needed. If Murphy has anything to do with it, the spare will be needed in the middle of a thunderstorm and the Forester will be too full to put the flat tire into. So it will have to go, soaking wet, across the mattress to go back into the forward compartment.
This evening, I recovered the fan box with hull liner and put a piece of coarse mesh fabric over the fan. At the DAM Gathering, I experienced a lot of condensation on the interior of the storage lockers (as yet uninsulated), and concluded that the hull liner fabric isn’t porous enough to allow a decent air flow. I was also having trouble with the hull liner coming off the fan box because the hook Velcro strips didn’t bond to the hot glue I used to attach them to the foam of the box. This time I’m using double-stick tape to attach the hull liner to the foam. I hope it works better than Velcro. The mesh fabric is so porous as to not impede the air flow at all.
I’m also hoping the improved ventilation will cut down on the condensation. When the interior was bare aluminum, the fan provided enough circulation to prevent condensation even on the coolest nights.