Oyster Bay residents Nick and Kate Cuddy with their son John, who is pounding a square peg into a round wooden tree nail.
Jason and Soo Kaas with their daughter Kaylee pounding a square wooden peg to make a round trunnel.
IMP volunteers Bill Shephard and Al Miller chatted with visitors: Jesse Lebus carrying baby Clara, George Barnes with the Coast Guard Auxiliary, Clara’s grandmother Carol Anne Brown, Cary Berend Coast Guard Auxiliary Aviator and George Lindsay who created the “Whack-a-Trunnel” machine.
IMP board member Bill Shephard with Oyster Bay’s Coast Guard Auxiliary Commander John Hubbard. CG officers must take off their hats indoors.
At the entrance to Beekman Beach Kiwanians Daryl Holzman and Michael Smith were giving out samples of popcorn. Michael wears two hats: he’s an OB Rotarian, too.
A good view of the “Whack-a-Trunnel” machine: the square pegs turn into round wooden nails and fall down through the slit in the middle of the machine. (Photos by Dagmar Fors Karppi)
A collection of some of the tree nails the children created for the Ida May.
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The WaterFront Center’s annual family event, Bay Day, Sunday, June 3 was a great day for the Ida May Project. There was a steady stream of visitors, many of them families, dropping by to see how the work was progressing on the oyster harvester Ida May. The volunteer ship builders are currently working on the inside of the boat and on the deck areas.
On the Beekman Beach festival grounds, at the IMP Booth, children were using a wooden mallet to pound square pegs into a round hole to create the wooden tree nails (trunnels), that will be used to fasten on the boat’s outer wooden planking.
The “Whack-A-Trunnel” machine was created by board member George Lindsay. Several of the young workers dropped off their completed trunnels in Building J, available for use on the boat. Lindsay kept busy supplying trunnel blanks for the children.
The IMP is open to the public Tuesdays and Thursdays from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Volunteer workers are always needed and welcome. For information see them on www.theidamayproject.org.
