At The Wilmington waterfront: Came across the Kalmar Nyckle shipyard immediately around the next bend in the road - I had the tour -
Blacksmith and Tour Guide at the Kalmar Nyckel Shipyard in Delaware - 1997
of the carving room - where there was a pelican with a fish in its beak, and a lion, and a cat's head - an old Swedish flag on the wall - it had been an old museum which they moved the carvers into - and piles of twisty rooty trees to be part of the bottom of the ship - around a corner - lead had been there - lead to make ballast -
there was coal in a bin - all this along the riverside - then there was a woman blacksmith - when she was at the forge she put up a black paper at the window for the photo - a bucket of water & lamp; a fire there -
later there were hooks that had been made at the forge -
there was a kind of saw where they were making pieces of wood flat - 
there was a room of ropes - the ends twisted with twine and coated with tar - and extra twine around wherever they might rub and fray.
The tour was really wonderful, the rooms were great - there was a room of maps.
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