Clearing 2 feet of snow from a driveway is backbreaking enough. Clearing it from a 113-foot-long historic whaling ship docked in the river is something else entirely.
Shipyard workers at the Mystic Seaport Museum in Connecticut were limited to rubber and plastic shovels as they carefully dug out Tuesday from the record-breaking snowstorm that hit the Northeast. Anything metal, such as a snowblower or metal shovel, would damage the decks of the Charles W. Morgan and other wooden boats in the maritime museum’s collection.
