S/V Laura Ellen

I started to cut back the deck planing so that I could stagger the joints between the old and new planks.  While doing this I found out that the center of the top side of the deck beams along the cabin trunk were rotted due to advanced iron sickness.  In order to replace the deck beams I need access to the carling.  The deck beams along the length of the cabin are dovetailed into the carling.

To get access to the carling the cabin trunk needs to be removed.  Since the cabin truck also was suffering fron iron sickness I have decided to lift the cabin trunk off to gain access to the deck beams.  After a solid weeks work the cabin trunk is now free of the deeck and ready to be lifted off.  The cabin truck will be repaired/rebuilt before it is reinstalled after the deck repairs are complete.

Since the cabin will be off the boat, I might as well replace the whole deck.  My initial intention was just to just replace the aft deck.  It's amazing how things snowball.