Bloody Fibreglass

Apparently in 1974, someone decided that that it would expeditious to sheath Esliina's hull and deck with fibreglass or GRP. The first job I set myself was to remove this horrible stuff and see what lay beneath. Over the last 3 weekends I have been stripping this off. Starting from a point on the Port side where the sheathing had been repaired. The tools I selected for the job on the first day were a small chisel and a wall paper scraper. These were rapidly discarded in favour of a cold chisel, lump hammer and crow bar. Perhaps unsurprisingly the GRP has been hiding a multitude of sins. The dead wood is soft, the garboard and most of the lower planking are saturated and the mahogany planks around the chain plates are rotten through. On the starboard side there is an area about a metre square with about 200 screws set in: Likely an attempt to get the GRP to stick back down after lifting. As the sheating was removed from the keel, the bilges emptied.

The only area remaining now is the bow area. Will the rot extend to the stem post?