The All-Encompassing Station- Today's work blog
Today began the nitty-gritty. Finished with all interior total station points; the gun deck, lower gun deck, and orlop deck, as well as the exterior beakhead bulkhead and the upper part of the beakhead, we all started drawing. Amy and Theresa had already been drawing the grating, and finished early this morning, allowing us to place plywood boards down over the grating. This allowed for easier movement and more people on the beakhead itself, and the drawing of the beakhead sides and the pin rails.
Total station points are still needed for the lower portions of the beakhead including the lower parts of the headframes and the massive knee holding the bowsprit. These will be recorded in a few days from a lower floor. Currently, most work has been done on the sixth floor, which gives a good sense of scale of this massive ship. The total station points already recorded, over 350, were sent to be translated into a computer format we can use, and will be available for us to work with tomorrow.
Lyz completed a sketch with measurements of the foremost knees on the interior of the gun deck, while Eric began sketching the lap-strake planking and entry ports of the bulkhead. Amy finished the grating and has begun sketching the stairs on the exterior of the beakhead bulkhead. Theresa, also completing the grating, has begun a sketch of the profile of the port side of the beakhead. Dave and Fred, our tireless leaders, have attempted to sketch various parts of the beakhead, but have been unable to get very far due to our questions. Fred is an amazing source of knowledge, there is nothing about ships or baseball that he does not know. I finished a masterpiece sketch of the foremost pin rail, and began the aft pin rail.
Tomorrow morning we have a meeting to check our progress. Fred has told us that he feels we are ahead of where he thought we would be at this point. While done with taking points, we need to analyze how much needs to be drawn and plotted, and estimate how long it will take. Though eight days remain, a few at the end should be saved for cleaning and making sure we have not forgotten any sections. The meeting will provide a complete description of what remains to be drawn, and how the drawings will be used in conjunction with the total station points.
The Vasa Museet has proved extremely hospitable and everyone has shown an interest in our project, as well as giving us encouragement. Besides having a R2-D2 like coffee machine, this museum is top quality throughout the organization. It is truly a wonderful opportunity to work for such a fantastic organization, and on such a unique archaeological site. Not every museum, or country, shows the dedication to preservation and scientific research that the Vasa Museet and the Swedish government have shown with the Vasa. Let it be a lesson, as every tourist who visits the museum sees, that preservation of archaeological material can be a benefit to all.
Tomorrow Lyz will tell the blog how the meeting went, and an estimate of how much work is left. Also, she may know when we will begin to shoot the exterior beakhead points, part of a complicated process involving lifting the cherry picker to another floor with the museum crane (done by the museum staff, not the ECU students who continue to get lost around Stockholm).
Total station points are still needed for the lower portions of the beakhead including the lower parts of the headframes and the massive knee holding the bowsprit. These will be recorded in a few days from a lower floor. Currently, most work has been done on the sixth floor, which gives a good sense of scale of this massive ship. The total station points already recorded, over 350, were sent to be translated into a computer format we can use, and will be available for us to work with tomorrow.
Lyz completed a sketch with measurements of the foremost knees on the interior of the gun deck, while Eric began sketching the lap-strake planking and entry ports of the bulkhead. Amy finished the grating and has begun sketching the stairs on the exterior of the beakhead bulkhead. Theresa, also completing the grating, has begun a sketch of the profile of the port side of the beakhead. Dave and Fred, our tireless leaders, have attempted to sketch various parts of the beakhead, but have been unable to get very far due to our questions. Fred is an amazing source of knowledge, there is nothing about ships or baseball that he does not know. I finished a masterpiece sketch of the foremost pin rail, and began the aft pin rail.
Tomorrow morning we have a meeting to check our progress. Fred has told us that he feels we are ahead of where he thought we would be at this point. While done with taking points, we need to analyze how much needs to be drawn and plotted, and estimate how long it will take. Though eight days remain, a few at the end should be saved for cleaning and making sure we have not forgotten any sections. The meeting will provide a complete description of what remains to be drawn, and how the drawings will be used in conjunction with the total station points.
The Vasa Museet has proved extremely hospitable and everyone has shown an interest in our project, as well as giving us encouragement. Besides having a R2-D2 like coffee machine, this museum is top quality throughout the organization. It is truly a wonderful opportunity to work for such a fantastic organization, and on such a unique archaeological site. Not every museum, or country, shows the dedication to preservation and scientific research that the Vasa Museet and the Swedish government have shown with the Vasa. Let it be a lesson, as every tourist who visits the museum sees, that preservation of archaeological material can be a benefit to all.
Tomorrow Lyz will tell the blog how the meeting went, and an estimate of how much work is left. Also, she may know when we will begin to shoot the exterior beakhead points, part of a complicated process involving lifting the cherry picker to another floor with the museum crane (done by the museum staff, not the ECU students who continue to get lost around Stockholm).
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