Belowdecks

Above the cargo hold is a deck that has been gussied up for use as a restaurant, meeting space, etc. We are looking aft here on the starboard side. The cabin sole (if we can call such a huge expanse by so modest a name) has been sanded and varnished, because guests found the original dusty, dirty flooring annoying (bridal gowns, apparently, suffered in particular). It is highly inauthentic but pretty to look at. In the foreground we see a replica of the old sail lockers, with some typical sails stowed as they would have been in real life -- except drier. The railed and netted area to the R is an open hatch leading down into the cargo hold. The large painted metal cylinder behind that is a mast, on its way down to its step on the keel.