Color photo. Three well dressed visitors relax while standing on a boarding platform at deck level of the Charles W. Morgan — an 1841 wooden whaling ship. The ship is docked at Mystic Seaport Museum, Mystic CT USA. It is late afternoon on a partly cloudy August day, Half the sky is bright blue, but staring to fade.

Color photo — deck to top of mainmast — of a wooden whaling ship built in 1841. The bright blue August sky has small scattered clouds, seen from the bow of the ship, through the rigging of the forward mast. All sails are furled. A small group of visitors are about to step onto the deck from a boarding platform at the lower right. The Charles W. Morgan is maintained as a seaworthy vessel, last sailed on its 38th voyage in 2014, Mystic Seaport Museum, Mystic CT USA.

Color photo of the interior of a long, narrow wooden building, a 250 foot segment of 1000 foot 1824 ropewalk, used for spinning lengths of fiber into long ropes for sailing ships. Large wooden pillars about every ten feet divide the length of the room into two galleries. In the left gallery, strands of fiber are twisted to form rope by spinning them through a circular device. The right gallery is open for workers — and visitors to walk freely. Small figures of visitors are visible at the far end of the building. The ropewalk was moved to and restored at the Mystic Seaport Museum, Mystic CT USA.