Date: 13 June 2023 Sailing from: Lunenburg, by way of Anguilla and Saint Martin Bound towards Panama Noon position: 14°28.9’N 070°43.7’W Course: WSW Speed: 5.3 knots, 9 knots in squalls Wind force and direction: Force 4 ESE Seas/swell: 1m ExS Barometer: 1016.5 and falling Sky: 3/8 but hot and blue, blue, blue Water temperature: 81.5°F …
Date: 12 June 2023 Sailing from: Lunenburg Bound towards: Panama Noon position: 15°29.9’N 068°40.2’W Course: WxS Speed: 5.3knots Wind force and direction: Force 4 ESE Seas/swell: 1.5m ExS Barometer: 1017.5 Sky: 3/8 cu Water temperature: 82.5°F Distance made good in 24 hours: 130nm Passage log: 355.3nm Voyage log: 2762nm Distance to next port: 750nm Remarks: …
Date: 10 June 2023 Sailing from: Lunenburg Bound towards: Panama Noon position: 17°19.2’N 065°00’W Course: WxS 1/2 S Speed: 5.3knots Wind force and direction: Force 4 ExS Seas/swell: 1-2m ESE Barometer: 1018.5 steady Sky: 2/8 light fluffy tradewind clouds scudding by overhead Water temperature: 83.0°F Passage log: 2533nm Voyage log: 2522nm Distance to next port: …
Day’s Run – May 28, 2023 Date: 28 May 2023 Sailing from: Lunenburg Bound towards: Panama Noon position: 27° 49’N 059° 55.3’W Course: SW 1/2W Speed: 2.4knots Wind force and direction: Force 2 SSE Seas/swell: 1m SxE Barometer: 1022 Sky: 3/8 Water temperature: 78°F Distance made good in 24 hours: 53nm Passage log: 1726nm Voyage …
Day’s Run – May 27, 2023 Date: 27 May 2023 Sailing from: Lunenburg Bound towards: Panama Noon position: 28° 25.3′ N 059° 06.2’W Course: SWxW Speed: 3.1knots Wind force and direction: Force 2-3 SExS Seas/swell: 1m SExS Barometer: 1023.5 Sky: 3/8 Water temperature: 76.7°F Distance made good in 24 hours: 77nm Passage log: 1673nm Voyage …
Date: 23 May 2023 Sailing from: Lunenburg Bound towards: Panama Noon position: 33° 48.9’N 055° 06.4’W Course: ESE Speed: 6.5 knots under power Wind force and direction: Force 3 SExE Seas/swell: 1m Barometer: 1026 Sail set: at 1400 – Outer jib, Inner jib, Fore tomast staysail, Foresail, Fore lower topsail, Fore upper topsail, Main topmast …
By Captain D. Moreland with D. Lorenzen Aboard PICTON CASTLE at Shelburne… The last Log entry carried on about our doings in Lunenburg with the World Voyage crew here. All very busy here working on boats, capstans, baggywrinkle and the like. This log is about what is happening on and in the ship at Shelburne …
While getting rained and blown away by gales this is an accurate look at our Lunenburg recently.
In 1996 after sailing from Norway, we steamed the MV Picton Castle from New York to Lunenburg to carry out the big refit and rigging that would make our ship the bluewater square-rigger that was hiding within her. On the way we put into New Bedford, Massachusetts to pick up a pile of 20” and …
CHRISTMAS REPORT – dateline – DECEMBER 2022- LUNENBURG Mes ami… Well, we were supposed to be on our way to the Galapagos right now, but it was not to be. So here we are in wintery gray Lunenburg, Boxing Day +1, with Christmas festivities receding, bobbing gently in the turbulence of our wake. But I …
