We didn’t have to drive far. It was a lot bigger than I thought when I saw the buildings on the road. And guess what? It was an actual VILLAGE!

On the way in, I saw this weird looking tree

The leaves and branches are so tight together, I bet you could stand under it in a deluge of rain and not even get wet.

After we paid our admittance fee we saw that they had some boats tied up that were definitely not of the 1800 vintage. We saw a Navigator

They had this large room with some art work and this really cool mural on it

It had lots of interesting little item depicted in it. Gary thought the art work was a waste of space that could of been better utilized with boating stuff.

So we went outside again and found this old whaling boat that we went on

They had the crew giving a demonstration of letting out the sails

Geez Wheez! No way Jose would I be hanging off that mast.

Down below you can see how little head room they had

They were either very short people or they wanted to save the room in the ship for whale parts.

Here are the sleeping quarters

There was a fire ship but unfortunately, they never let anyone one…..at least when we were looking, cause I really wanted to go on that one.

They had another ship we went on where the people that worked in the village actually sleep for the summer

At least they had a way to defend themselves if their ship was overtaken by tourist

They’d blow a hole in their transom if they shot it in that position. And it’s all anchored down, that won’t work well for protection.

Look at the size of that wench though. Just think of the size of the anchor!

It did have an unusual figurehead on the bow

The last ship we saw looked like a giant catapillar

They were working to restore this ship. All wood. I looked around for the travel lift they must of used to pull this bad boy out. Here’s how they did it.

They have their own working shops in this village to get all the pieces done to repair the ship. A wood working place, a black smith, a pully place,

a rope place,

a guy said they would have a building 1000 feet long so they could make ropes at 1000 feet because the weakest point of a rope is if you have to tie two together.

They had a building that made the name plaques for the boats, a place where they had the figureheads displayed

We were able to take a peek in the ship to see how far they were with the work

I bet that fire extinguisher is not from the 1800’s.

A guy told us by the time they are done restoring that ship, there will only be about 10% of the original ship left. Apparently all those tall ships are the same way, when they get restored, there is only a very small percentage of the original ship left. Probably the metal parts, I am sure they hold up better than the wood.

We saw some other cool stuff, like a pot for melting down the whale blubber

An old harpoon

All in all it was fun but I guess Gary was a little disappointed, he thought there would be more boats we could of gone on. At least we can cross that off his bucket list.

Tomorrow we’ll be on one of these

Heading to Long Island NY.