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| Instructor woodcraft Dennis Kramer and his help
are sawing the upper, or wing, transom, out of a large log of wood.
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transom / transummer
Not really summer here on Shipyard ‘De Delft’!
Temperatures are below zero (C°), but the work continues:
business as usual! Inside the workshops a ship has to be build.
And because of the hard work and high spirit, our workers, among
which many a volunteer, are not really bothered by the cold.
 There
is a lot of work to be done on some new parts of the ship: the
transoms, also known as transummers. A transom is part of the
stern, the back of the ship. In a way the transoms could be
referred to as the horizontal frames of the aft ship. The 1:5
scale model of the stern-frame of ‘De Delft’ (Photo)
gives a good view of the transoms.
There are four transoms in total. Transom mumber one is the
uppermost or “wing” transom and is almost finished.
Soon after this one, the other transoms will be made.
Of cause, transoms and frames are not made as a gamble. René
Reule, Head Instructor woodcraft, developed a generic, aluminium
mould specialized for constructing all frames and transoms.
This mould is flexible and is based on the lines which are set
out on the frames floor.
Note: Nowdays 'transom' is also a commonly used term for the
protruding section of the stern above the water line, which carries the ship's name.
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photography: Pieter Niessink
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