Kelson

The keelson is in ship and boat building a longitudinal structural association that runs across the floor timbers and serves to give the hull longitudinal stiffness and the frames and floor timbers connection.

For steel vessels, it is an inner support or even a hollow box. With today's ships of large ships is above the keelson of the pipe tunnel. For timber ships the keelson is a wooden beam. He is the internal counterpart to the keel. Small wooden sailboats have no real keelson as longitudinal association. Here, the wooden structure on which the mast is called keelson.

If one wants to make a joke with " landlubbers " ( newcomers on board), they send her go, " to feed the keelson ."

In rowing boats is the " keelson " the additional passenger, with quite uncomfortable sitting on the keelson, because neither a rowing course is control still exists for him.

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