Bents and Knee-Walls

Trimming the ends of the bents

 Today in the shop, we worked on constructing the knee-walls.  The knee-walls are three feet high, and sixty feet long.  They support the bents, which were also worked on today.  The ends of the bents were cut to size, so that they would fit on top of the knee-walls.  Also, the lofting floor was rotated so that we will have enough space to lay out the Virginia on the floor.

First Post Found at Pophan Colony
(image from Maine Maritme Museum)

History: The reason they knew that the Popham colony had ever existed was that they found a posthole where a piece of wood was that had been burned. Burned wood gets preserved better then regular wood.

Vocabulary: Gusset- a bracket strengthening an angle of a structure.
Wesley Blum