Knee:
An angle or channel from deck beam to shell frame taking the place of a bracket.
Knees:
Supporting braces made into a right angle, used for strength when two parts are joined.
dagger knee - A piece of timber crossing the frames diagonally.
dandy - A cutter rigged vessel with lug mizzen aft set on a jigger-mast.
knee
A triangular wooden or metal plate inside the hull that connects structural members, for example a deck beam with a frame.
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knee
A timber or metal bar fashioned into a right angle to provide strengthening and support at the intersection of timbers in wooden ships. (back)
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KNEE A brace or reinforcement between two joining planes. On our boat designs, knees are used to reinforce the junction between the bottom and the transom, between the sides and transom.
BEAM KNEE A bracket between a frame or stiffener and the end of a beam; a beam arm. BEAM LINE A line showing the points of intersection between the top edge of the beam and the molded frame line, also called "molded deck line".
With a keelbolt boring into your knee and deck beam assaulting your skull it is all too easy to forget if you are working in metric or imperial units or perhaps using the ruler whose first inch is only seven eighths. Thank goodness for wing dividers.
By the looks of that dramatic knee off the bottom of the boom I suspect the vang will do all the work of holding the boom down. Long 'couches' flank the cockpit with two dining tables on centerline.
Knee - Connects two parts roughly at right angles, eg. deck beams to frames.
Know the ropes - A sailor who 'knows the ropes' is familiar with the miles of cordage and ropes involved in running a ship.
 See also: Rudder, Hull, Boat, Lines, Boom
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