I visited New Bedford Harbor last year and was amazed at how much bigger an enterprise it is than I've seen in my home state, Rhode Island. The decks and cabins on many of the ships were rusty and the gear (mechanicals as per this week's prompt) looked heavily used. What appealed to me about this one and other similar ones was how colorful it is, along with its extraordinary hand-made look, and that it seemed to be constructed of relatively simple and possibly old-fashioned parts, unlike so many mechanical objects one might expect to see photographed for this prompt. Yet I've read that scalloping is a major industry for this major fishing port.
Life in New Bedford, Massachusetts, United States - Much used scalloping nets by Marian
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