Genes love of nautical things never stopped though, and when he changed our basement into a ships galley, everyone was impressed. He had built a bar with wood using doweling instead of nails and finished the sides with wooden spindles and black naugahyde. He had put a refrigerator behind the bar and on the wall above he put in red carpet surrounding an arched piece of decorative glass. At the other end of the room he made rope riggings which were attached from the top of the fireplace to t...