Strong as hell but too complicated to just go in and replace that one beam - fastenings removed, bottom planks torn loose, and God knows what else once you get into it. A nice little project for a shipwright, an open wallet situation for the owner. No thanks, not for us. Might work, depending on what you hit or tore loose during the grinding process. With a boat built in 1889 every repair is an adventure.
Iron nails to fasten the planks, wood drifts for tying the beams together.
All right, I'll concede that. There is nothing beautiful or refined about our solution. This old girl would have been dead a long time ago if spiritual purity had been the criteria for repair efforts. Naw, she's like the grizzled old man shuffling along the street with a pacemaker, hearing aids and his blood loaded with beta blockers and Coumadin. Still alive, but not too pure.