It's time for my update for the night!
Let me start off small with this overhang:
Titanic was not symmetrical from port to starboard, and in fact on the port side of the ship, the second funnel gets really close to the edge of its deckhouse (a deckhouse is a building-like structure that sits on what would otherwise be the uppermost deck of the ship, as my best way to describe it in my own words). So close, in fact, that platform that the funnel sits on ends up needing to overhang some!
Some things that still need to be done are visible in this picture: we will likely ask Demian to make benches to replace the ones similar to the ones in this image. There is also a light that will eventually be installed on this wall, and the red tower thing in the background is a reminder I've made to mark what will need to be the height of the third funnel (the other three funnels have similar markings to their starboard sides, as each funnel has a different height).
Now then, the real star of the show tonight is Demian's deck chair. Bones4 showed you these already, but here's a closer look:
Back in the day, the slang term for this sort of chair would be "steamer chair." White Star Line allowed passengers to reserve these lounging chairs before a voyage, or at any point during the voyage via the ship's purser's office (coming eventually to our build) at $1 for the entire voyage. Passengers additionally had an option to purchase a blanket for these chairs, known again in the slang of the day as "steamer rugs," for an additional $1. No, you wouldn't be allowed to just bring the blanket from your bed on the ship up on deck.
Not only did you rent a chair, but you also rented a specific position with it, which brings us to the deck chair battens:
These dark battens in the roof of the A-deck promenade had numbers along their lengths. Each of these numbers corresponded to a number on the back of a deck chair, which made these battens useful in case someone also ordered a steamer rug which might have covered up the number written on their chair when finding his or her steamer chair for the first time on the voyage. Passengers weren't allowed to move these chairs around very much, so it's said that it wasn't uncommon at the time for mothers of single, marriageable daughters to book crossings according to the passenger list, and then bribe crew members to get deck chairs for their daughters to be positioned next to rich bachelors.
