Shipwright Tom Daniels takes photos as staff from Arnold M. Graton Associates, work with Mystic Seaport Museum staff to remove the last of the steel support I beams from the MAYFLOWER II Tuesday, October 30, 2018 at Mystic Seaport Museum's H.B. duPont Preservation Shipyard. Daniels writes a blog about the restoration project. Work has progressed on the project to a point where external support, other than normal shores and poppets, is no longer needed and would actually impede access to future work. The steel I beams were installed in January of 2016. The hull has been framed and planked to above the waterline and can now stand on its own. 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 more than half way through a 30-month restoration at the shipyard in preparation to sail it again on the 400th anniversary of the Pilgrim's voyage. (Sean D. Elliot/The Day)
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Tim Dansereau, left, and Don Walker, with Arnold M. Graton Associates set up shoring timbers as they prepare to remove steel support infrastructure from the MAYFLOWER II Tuesday, October 30, 2018 at Mystic Seaport Museum's H.B. duPont Preservation Shipyard. Work has progressed on the project to a point where external support, other than normal shores and poppets, is no longer needed and would actually impede access to future work. The steel I beams were installed in January of 2016. The hull has been framed and planked to above the waterline and can now stand on its own. 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 more than half way through a 30-month restoration at the shipyard in preparation to sail it again on the 400th anniversary of the Pilgrim's voyage. (Sean D. Elliot/The Day)
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Tim Dansereau, left, with Arnold M. Graton Associates, communicates with Matt Barnes, lead shipwright on the restoration, as they remove the last of the steel support I beams from the MAYFLOWER II Tuesday, October 30, 2018 at Mystic Seaport Museum's H.B. duPont Preservation Shipyard. Work has progressed on the project to a point where external support, other than normal shores and poppets, is no longer needed and would actually impede access to future work. The steel I beams were installed in January of 2016. The hull has been framed and planked to above the waterline and can now stand on its own. 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 more than half way through a 30-month restoration at the shipyard in preparation to sail it again on the 400th anniversary of the Pilgrim's voyage. (Sean D. Elliot/The Day)
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