Starting working on the aft cabin uprights

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We are now starting to fit the uprights of the aft end of the cabin so that we can then fit the new aft end of the cabin short deck beams and then the carlins. then once the carlins are fitted along with the short deck beams and the uprights then the cabi sides can be refitted. The first job will be to make up some T&G to make a new aft end of the cabin the way it would have been when Gadfly II /Mai Star II was when she was build in 1939.

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