This summer’s work will be limited to refurbishing the toerail and rubrail. To facilitate this work, scaffolding was built around the boat, with the planks just about at the level of the boot stripe. The two photos below show a test section. A cross member supports the plank, and that member is supported at one end by a vertical triangular frame, and at the other end by the new frame for the new cover.

The test section was suitable, so work began constructing nine more triangular frames and cross members.

With the frames and cross members in  place, it was time to cut the planks to length and screw them down to each other and to the cross members.

Now, with scaffolding all around the boat, a new system for getting on the boat was needed. The usual ladder was temporarily retired in favor of a stepladder and steps: the stepladder gets you onto the scaffolding and steps to from the scaffolding take you up to the boat.

The steps are fastened to a the scaffolding with a screw, and and they are steadied by a narrow piece of plywood that is connected to the frame. (You can see this piece angling upward in the photo below.)

The following photo shows how a cross member on the frame for the cover supports the front of the forward-most planks.