Cutting Futtocks

Cutting Futtock for Frame

Today we worked on the keel some more and two of the boys were

First Stage of Bow

using the chain saw and cutting out pieces of white oak so we can have frames for the futtocks that we are making. The girls worked on the beginning of the bends. Some people worked on the jig. We had a very easy going day today so lets hope tomorrow goes the same way.

Storehouse as shown on Fort St. George Map

History:  The first building that the colonists built was the storehouse for the supplies that the ship Mary and John brought over from England.  Here is the drawing of the storehouse from John Hunt's map of Fort St. George, which was found in a Spanish museum.  

Vocabulary: Futtocks- timbers forming the lower, more curved portion of the frame in a wooden hull.

Blog By Bianca D'Arcangelo  and Patti