Over the past week, Picton Castle and our wharf and warehouse have been involved in a top secret project here in Lunenburg that we unfortunately can’t tell you anything about yet, but we can tell you about moving the ship at the wharf. Most of the wharves in Lunenburg are like fingers, extending out from …
When Picton Castle World Voyage crew sign off the ship and see their friends and families again, one of the questions they’re most often asked is “what was your favourite port?” A voyage around the world in the Barque Picton Castle covers an awful lot of ocean, about 30,000 nautical miles worth. And on this …
Word has been spreading about Picton Castle’s next world circumnavigation voyage with a sailing date planned for next spring and naturally we’re getting lots of questions from prospective trainee crew. Understandably, keen would-be seafarers want to know as much of what they can expect in the first few days or weeks aboard the ship. The answer …
Today, Friday August 28, is the last day of Picton Castle’s 2020 summer Bosun School. We celebrated the students and their achievements a bit early, holding a graduation dinner and ceremony on Tuesday evening. One of our students had to leave a few days early to start a job, working as a deckhand on the …
The coronavirus pandemic has messed up a lot of travel plans. We’re feeling that here too – if we had proceeded as scheduled, Picton Castle would be sailing in gorgeous South Pacific trade winds on a passage from the Galapagos Islands to Pitcairn Island right now. But ports are generally not open, we’re not sailing …
It has been a delight this summer to have a small group of keen marine students attending Picton Castle’s Bosun School here in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, Canada. Offering Bosun School came together somewhat last minute, after we made the decision to delay Picton Castle’s planned departure from Lunenburg. But with a ship and a fleet …
In the spring of 2021, Picton Castle will set sail on another world circumnavigation voyage. Sailing around the world is a big deal, a challenging feat. But for Picton Castle, one of the benefits of making a voyage like this is that we have so many excellent friends and contacts in the ports we’ll visit …
Picton Castle was originally scheduled to set sail on a year-long voyage to the South Pacific in May 2020. Because of COVID-19, that didn’t happen and we had to delay the start of the voyage. Originally we delayed until July, then until October, and a few weeks ago we further postponed, pushing the start of …
The Barque Picton Castle will not be sailing this fall for the South Pacific. As the most recently revised scheduled start of our voyage approaches in September, we have been keeping up with the latest developments and information to do with this COVID-19 pandemic and its spread. We have been following the many international travel …
Any of you who have sailed into Cape Town, South Africa in Picton Castle on a world voyage, or any of you who have virtually followed Picton Castle’s voyages there will know what a special place the school Christel House South Africa holds in our hearts. Christel DeHaan, the school’s founder, passed away on June …
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