The forepeak area of the picnic boat now cleared of the old top and bulkhead and the fibreglass matting, now ready to rebuild the area for the fuel tank.

All the old rotten plywood removed and just the fibreglass matting to remove and the clean up the area 

Cutting back the fibreglass matting with a diamond edge multi tool blade to cut it back as close to the hull as possible to cut down on the amount of grinding needed to flat the surface back to the original hull surface.

All the fibreglass matting removed and ground back to the hull  

Time to sort out the missing starboard seat stringer that needs to be replaced  to support the two remain thwarts