Yesterday I got to spend the day at the Museum, working on varnishing a section of well-sanded wood on the wheel. When I got there I met up with our skipper, and he playfully asked if I was going to get Mike Rowe to help me out. Yes, he was there.
The Discovery Channel's Dirty Jobs crew was at our Museum, filming Mike doing a variety dirty jobs onboard the Star of India. While I was sanding away, my attention was drawn to the sight of a cameraman and Randy standing on the main royal yard footropes, and Mike sitting pretty in a bosun's chair being hoisted to the masthead.
He looked tiny all the way up there, but he has now joined a select few individuals who have had a view of the deck from that very place. Dispite the fact that he's been to the 500 ft. top of the Mackinac Bridge in Michigan, as well as many other precarious places, no doubt this was the scariest. There is something rather dubious about sitting on a plank of wood supported by two ropes, hooked into a line and being hoisted 160 off the deck of a mildly swinging barque.
I can't wait to see the episode.
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