Restoring the Mayflower
Shipwright Chris Sanders uses a timber framers slick, a very large wood chisel, to fair the main deck breast hook of the Mayflower II Thursday, October 12, 2017 at Mystic Seaport's H.B. duPont Preservation Shipyard. The breast hook is a single shaped timber of live oak that connects all the timbers of the fore deck sub structure and surrounding frames. The ship, a replica of the vessel that brought the Pilgrims to the new world in 1620 and built in 1957 in England as a gift to the United States in thanks for support during and after WWII, is an attraction at Plimoth Plantation in Plymouth, Massachusetts and is undergoing a 30-month restoration at the seaport in preparation to sail it again on the 400th anniversary of the Pilgrim's voyage.
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