Or climbed aboard! The reconstructed ships are SO tiny. There are one, or two, cabins where the “gentlemen” slept in a group, and everyone else just stretched out on the deck. I venture to guess that not anyone on this board could stand to go to sea under these conditions. It’s been a while since I saw those ships, but I think that all three of them could fit inside my house. Well, at least 2 of them...
George Washington was Supposed to be over 6’ tall also. If you see his bed in Mount Vernon and his clothes, you begin to have doubts. If he fit into the clothes, they had to have been elastic and if he slept in the bed, a full quarter of him rested on the floor.