In the winter of 2009 they had a lot of snow here and the huge snow load took a real toll on the railings. It started out with this, then it got worse and worse. Thank God I bought a Fein Multi-Master tool. That thing is amazing.
Here is my beautiful rail snapped in half like a matchstick	It also snapped a little farther aft under an upright.
If you click on the picture and expand it you can see the starboard rail pulled out of the deck.	I did an inspection of the port side scuppers and found that water has been seeping in and rotting the deck. I removed all the canvas in this section to dry it all out.
Here is another shot of how far forward it went. This is an easy repair because it has not gotten very far yet. I will need to cut the bad deck out and replace it with fresh plywood and treat the existing wood. I will also improve the way I put the canvas around the scupper.	Here I am beginning to inspect for more damage. It seems like the deck shelf is also rotten. I think I'll remove the deck from the seam forward back to the rear bulkhead. Then I am assured of getting all the rotten wood out of there.
This is how much I had to take out. Not as bad as the other side, the deck shelf was only bad the first top inch or so. Towards the aft I was taking the wood out in smelly hand fulls. Lucky this area was all fiberglass underneath so it didn't get into the rest of the ship. As you can see I have started my first repair by filling it in with West System Epoxy.	Here is a close up so you can see I am filling in the aft section to the top of the fiberglass casing it was in.
The cedar ceilings down below were all water stained. I sanded out the whole works and Gnettie crawled in there and cetol'd it. What a girl !!	I need a wood shelf for the deck to screw too, so here is the first new wood glued into a bed of epoxy. I will also need to flesh out the wood on the cross pieces. The big piece of wood is for me to stand on so I won't fall through into the bilges. But my tools, pencils and what have you, do all the time.
Here are the repair patches all installed. In the foreground you can see the first piece of Styrofoam installed.	Forward Styrofoam installed. I just wedged them in and then the deck goes over top and squeezes it in.
More Styrofoam and forward deck piece fitted.	Last piece of insulation in place.
Deck fitted and screwed in. Now to put the Gorilla into action.	New frame installed and the insulation back in place.
New cover in place. More work for the Gorilla.	First coat of paint on the deck. I wanted it to let it soak in before I installed new canvas.