Removing the carlins and seeing how far the rot as gone and how much more as to beremoved to get to sound wood.

Now that the carlins are removed as well as the wood on top of the beam shelf,it can be  seen how much work is going to be needed to sort this area of the deck beam structure.

Apart from the old iron fixings there appears to not be much wrong with the beam shelf that a small piece of grading will not put right

This is the only small area that is in need of repairing 

The top of the transom looks like it is going to need renewing as it is in a poor condition on the starboard side, so before any work is done on the deck. It is going to have some major work done to the transom