Mystic is a place where dreams do come true.
Mystic Seaport Museum has basically taken the old town, put a fence around it, restored the buildings and added a lot of old sailing ships. You could spend a day or more. Depends on how much time you spend at the Wall of Fudge.
You can sail around the harbor in sail boats
or just wander among the buildings and sailing ships.
It has the original wharves and businesses that supported the sailing days. And there are people makings barrels, ropes, and iron work with tools from days of old.
I enjoyed the rope house. It is over two hundred feet long. It has to be as long as the longest rope that you are going to make. You could see hemp being spun into twine, the twine being spun into strands
And then three to five strands are then twisted into rope. How fibers a few inches long can be spun into rope several hundred feet long is still magic to me. I also learned that in the 1870, there were two types of pharmacists. Those who went to college and more or less knew what they were doing, and those who just mixed interesting things together and called it a medicine. The degreed pharmacists would display bottles of bright liquids in there windows to show there skill at mixing. The brighter and clearer indicates the better pharmacist. You also went to the pharmacist for dyes, paints and varnishes.
They had a cooper make making barrels and buckets with just a draw plane and wooden vice to hold the staves. It is more difficult than it looks. The sides of the staves are not straight. Remember a barrel is wider in the middle than at the ends.
And you can top the entire day off with a great pizza, though you will probably not be served by Julia Roberts.
If you are ever in Boston or New York, I recommend the short drive to see Mystic Seaport. It’s your chance to experience the life of a sailor with out getting sea sick.
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