What was day to day life like for European sailors en route to America around 1500?

by SirAn0n

What would a typical sailor do? Did they have specific tasks that they had to do or was everybody working where needed. Was the ship an environment in which there was always something going on or was there a lot of downtime?

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Check out some of my old posts on ships of that exact period:

Portuguese ships questions

If you have some follow up questions please feel welcomed to post here :)