"Life Lesson" Along With Your Tour of the Galeon

 

The barrel doesn't serve any function on the modern ship but provides "atmosphere."

One of our maintenance tasks while underway or otherwise not open to the public, has been stripping many layers of dark brown paint off this column and its mate at the entry to the galley. We had to untie the barrel tied to it to do the work, then retie it securely before we set sail. I was trying to remember exactly how it was tied before; working with my delightful crew mate Luki. He said, “You know, I’ve never been a fan of necessarily recreating exactly what was done before. Just, solve the problem [as you see it in front of you] now.” (Life lessons along with your tour of the Galeon, no extra charge.) 

Luki's job during this maintenance day was polishing the ship's bell; the giant cleat he's sitting on is just above Dan's head! He's Austrian but had extremely good English so it was easy for us to get to know each other.

Scraping the column; note we use modern tools. I tell visitors we're 21st century people living on a 17th century ship.