The condition of the deck beams and breasthook on the starboard side.

 



In the third phot you can see there is what remains of a iron nail which the old deck was nailed to the top plank with, although the  heads of the nails have rusted away, the nails were a good quality as seeing as the boat is now 83 years old they have not done too bad in all that time.

However, the deck beams are not so good as the ends rotted away over time and the only thing holding the deck in in place was the in the top plank and the nails in the good part of the deck beams. 

So along with the ribs and frames that have to be renewed there are going to be at least three new deck beams ahead of the cabin, Starting with the deck beam attached to front of the cabin. 

The first job will be to remove the old deck beam and make a camber pattern to put the correct camber back in the deck and also the two beams that are missing ahead of the cabin front. Once they are made and fitted. The rest of the side deck short beams can be made anew and also the carlins can be made and fitted to front of the cabin deck beam and the one at the aft end of the cabin. 

The aft deck beam will have to be fitted to the new aft of cabin bulkhead once that is made and fitted. In the meantime the cabin sides and front will be dismantled and put in storage until all the deck beams and carlins are made and fitted. then the cabin sides and front will be rebuild.  

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