Making a start on Mai Star II latest restoration

 Now it is time to get on and Make a start on Mai Star II restoration and get her back to a sailing yacht once again. 

A far amount of the repairs needed to the hull are in the forward part of the yacht on the port side from the stem back to the midships area of the hull, this is where most of the damaged and rotten wood is situated.  

A friend helping remove the rotten deck and top plank 

The rotten top plank on the port side showing how badly split it was and rotten in places it was 

Same side looking aft showing the rotten tops of the grown frames which will need replacing with new green oak 

After 70+ years the top plank as given up the ghost 

The same is true of the top of the transom. I will have to look and think hard about whether it is going to be better to just replace the top section or to take the whole transom out and replace the whole of the transom.