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Tour of Old Ironsides
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" It must be a little intimidating working on what is basically a part of American history old ironsides. That's certainly has but before we begin Bob I'd just like to empathize that this is an inspection and we they have a lot of remodeling we're not teaching anything not going to change a thing we're gonna get with the fact that people distillate fuels we took out softly approach stronger. She looks unrecognizable. Without the -- for what we're gonna with -- to strip the three bath before the -- an -- private partnership yeah and what we're doing lovely and let me get back to Ireland who. Visit -- Laminated Douglas fir. And -- we're -- we'll see where this mast step from the progress report the -- and this -- all being made out of native American stock all the material used in his native Americans are basically it's why don't pliable than."
" Her feet bellawood what they're cutting over here looks like -- I don't agree that the -- 11 -- with the -- Paula white all we've got a couple going to be. -- I -- from all the material look. You can talk for a while. Yeah and the -- youthful hope wife got not an American -- model that we can look at that helped them understand the structure of the ship. Inside Bob we have an excellent all right and help a great --"
" I witnessed them. Bob let's of the white oak hull plank of the summit on the outside the ship that above forty feet long -- with them but they're made. Though that we'll go tomorrow on people went along and you bought the hull of the boat. And this -- an idea of how all of the ship is structured what. What are these red members all of read them bits angles that were part of your written specifications for the ship in the 1794. But that's been left out and we're thinking of reinstall them with trying to get Washington to look if they would prefer. Indeed I would add a lot of strength how long wanted to write workbook is the rigging also being replaced definitely leave the third floor your blog -- loft great. How much rigging does a frigate like this required. There's about 27 miles over breaking on the constitution when he seven miles of roll -- hustlers that are. And what's being done here what they're doing here is a hand splicing a symbol into one of Vila more -- fix -- Look -- the -- bracing on the standing rigging the -- to go on the fore the main. And help to support the terminology is almost as impressive as well we're looking that's on the difficulties -- and -- great. Can we actually go aboard ship we certainly can't."
" How does this. This is the lower section of the captain Bob this is the only thing the sailors had for mechanical advantage for raising yard arms and we're taking -- And I corruption or -- it after you've stuck large pieces of wood in here to budget Taylor would have turned this thing around that's exactly right -- plus not a do that they would have struck all the lot of men wear one of these because those sailors were lot shorter than we are right. And rivers are pretty low down. Wow look at this thing this is new. Yes that is well that's a piece of reckoning and it goes here on top of the wall away there's two elevations of it we call this joint. That's just not join Bob Edwards followed them to give the -- and longest two Wall Street. As you can see -- locked together -- this particular lot on the piece already installed right. So it's kind of acts like the hoop around a barrel exactly right and that's a lot of longitudinal strength of the ship how many layers of what do we have here on the off. We have three separate infield wall we have the alcohol planking which is outside of priming. We have a framing itself and then we have be inside sailing plank. So on this particular area you have about 21 inches of salt Award went to the caller ironsides. It would take a look at the outside of the -- we certainly can break. -- tell us about the dry dock Elizabeth select them all those dry dock in the country it was started on the John Quincy Adams and was completed under Andrew Jackson. The -- of about five feet long which is twice as long as the ship which is just about to -- away the thirty feet deep. And that. And -- the first ship in the right on the ship projects way above that well let us out of dock yeah. We're at the stern end of the constitution where's the rudder. I was taken off for restoration about three years that we have at all recall but ready to go back on Bob that is now is all of the bronze and I'm looking at all of this timbers that original. Most of the timber and probably all the wrong -- and original while we believe it goes back to the original construction 797. It through the hallways copper glad you're still love."
" The popular on the ship when she was launched. And that would replace the copper this time -- was. Apply but while we didn't really end every parent company of involvement in the alignment -- availability of the world that's incredible how it all the planking attached to. The Caribbean the ship -- an attachment -- and and yeah this is -- then we believe there's been -- and Sunday -- and seven you can see some corrosion on an amazing. And the field do you think this is original. We believe that Kaelin. Many of them all right so longitudinal lengths of planking are original Akeelah -- major pieces. And we do see a scarf joint here just as we saw for the yeah that's right that's half the typical marine. Marine joint."
" That's amazing to think that these cameras -- have been growing when Columbus discovered America they could have been felled when they. When he laid out this populism -- anybody."
" Sunday night before but -- very possible that these these timbers would be well with the video -- recording --"