After the storm last night the morning came in clearing up with strong west-north-west winds howling across the waters. Schooners and other yachts anchored in the harbour, the fishing vessels and the Picton Castle alongside Lunenburg’s venerable and historic wharves tugged at their moorings without straining them. The storm has passed. No real damage around […]
One of the many hurricanes of this Atlantic 2020 hurricane season is headed our way here in late September. Some days ago Hurricane TEDDY took form out in the exceptionally warm sub-tropical waters of the North Atlantic somewhere east and north of the Lesser Antilles of the Caribbean. Hot winds that blow in from Africa
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The author of this Captain’s Log is Captain Carlyle Brown. Carl is a Picton Castle shipmate from several voyages. He has had an extensive career as a sailing ship mariner, marine educator and long-time successful sail trainer. He has been Captain or Mate of the schooners Harvey Gamage, When And If, Pioneer, J.N. Carter, Ernestina,
Here on Lunenburg’s working waterfront, with the Picton Castle’s Voyage to the South Pacific on hold, we want to do something worthwhile and interesting. So, we are looking to do a modified short and sweet summertime Bosun School in July and August with a big emphasis on small boat sailing and handling. Summertime on Lunenburg
Dear Crew of Picton Castle’s Voyage to the South Pacific, This is an important update about the start of this voyage. Please take it in and come back with any questions. We are postponing the crewing up and start of our Voyage to the South Pacific until the autumn. Due to this virus pandemic and
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It has been a long winter for our venerable barque moored at our wharf at 174 Bluenose Drive here in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia. The Picton Castle, like any sailing ship, does better sailing in sunny trade winds alive with her crew looking after her rather than sitting under slush and snow with winter gales howling
Dear PICTON CASTLE crew for our voyage to the South Pacific, It is pretty clear that have been some dramatic and significant changes in our world in the past few weeks. We continue to look into how these changes affect PICTON CASTLE and our upcoming voyage to the South Pacific. As we announced earlier this
A little while ago I received a note from some family of friends who were out sailing around the South Pacific Ocean in their cruising yacht. They had asked me for, received and followed some advice about where to go and what to look for in the Tuamotu group northeast of Tahiti and the Society
To all Picton Castle crew, Like everyone else keen on our upcoming Voyage to the South Pacific in the PICTON CASTLE, we’ve been watching the news here as this coronavirus predictably expands. We have also been gathering information from other ships and our agents and contacts in the countries we intend to visit. We knew
We are were in Durban, South Africa, in December 1976 in the pretty 80’ Danish wooden Brigantine ROMANCE, the ship with so much of her DNA in PICTON CASTLE, about to set off around the Cape of Storms and onwards towards Cape Town. We were westward bound around the world on a long, almost two
“Colonel” Mad Mike Hoare….African Mercenary 1919-2020 Read More »
