I went back to Mystic Seaport on Thursday, and although I only had about 2 1/2 hours, I still managed to take some pictures. The place is awfully quiet on weekday mornings, so I didn't have to deal with screaming kids getting in the way. The pictures are rather large, so I'm going to stick to 10 per post.
This is the 1920s fishing schooner
L.A. Dunton, sans masts and rigging. New England is finally coming out of winter, so quite a few of the boats and ships there were in this condition.
Here's a view of the stern.
The shipyard had a number of restoration projects underway, and there were quite a few components of various boats and ships laying around here and there. Here's an old anchor and windlass.
A view of the Seaport as seen from behind the restoration building. The schooner on the left is the
Mystic Whaler. The red building in the middle houses the remains of the schooner
Australia, built in 1862 and used by the Confederates as a blockade runner during the Civil War. The green building is an oyster shack from the late 1800s, surrounded by three fishing boats of the same era. The building to the left of it has a large-scale model representing how the Mystic River area appeared in the 1880s. On the right side of this photo, we see the Eastern-rig dragger
Roann, and the
L.A. Dunton.
The
Mayflower II is usually docked in Plymouth, Massachusetts, but now spends winter and early spring in Mystic for refit and repairs. Getting a good shot of the entire ship is pretty much impossible.
This 14 foot tall compound steam engine powered a New York harbor tug back in the 20s. It blows my mind to think about how clean and high tech tugs are these days compared to back then.
Another building at the shipyard houses the keel of the whaleship
Thames, which besides the
Charles W Morgan, is probably the largest surviving relic from the days of Yankee whaling.
The steamboat
Sabino was the current major project in the restoration building. I took a 30-minute trip onboard back in 2013; hopefully they can get her running again!
