Most of the crew have now arrived aboard Picton Castle in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, Canada for the Rendezvous 2017 voyage. It’s always an exciting time when a voyage begins. There is a flurry of activity around the ship as people move aboard and get settled, ship’s work picks up speed as the number of hands …
This summer, Picton Castle will take part in the Rendez-vous 2017 Tall Ships Regatta. Events of this kind are quite rare; they involve tall ships from around the world racing from port to port on both sides of the Atlantic and appearing in festivals in various ports in between the races. Rendez-vous 2017 kicked off …
Picton Castle played the role of L’Esperance last summer as the French-language documentary La Grand Traversée was filmed on board while crossing the Atlantic Ocean. We will get to see the first episode when it airs tomorrow night, Tuesday April 11, 2017 on Radio-Canada. La Grand Traversée tells the story of ten “colonists” who made the …
This summer Picton Castle will participate in the Rendezvous 2017 Tall Ships Regatta, one of the biggest and most exciting gatherings of tall ships in many years. We’re looking forward to being part of an international fleet of vessels, our crew in company with sailors from around the world. We have just added one more port to …
We’ve Added Two New Legs To This Summer’s Voyage! Read More »
Captain Moreland and I were at the Tall Ships America annual conference in Boston last week. Picton Castle is a member of Tall Ships America, whose mission is “to encourage character building through sail training, promote sail training to the North American public, and support education under sail.” We try to make sure that Picton …
Yesterday was as good a day one could ask for in Lunenburg in January to do some rigging work. The temperature was above freezing, the sun was shining and there was almost no wind. Picton Castle is currently in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, Canada and we’re getting some maintenance work done aboard. We had sent down …
January 30, 2017 – Sending Down the Mizzen Topmast Read More »
Lunenburg photographer Peter Zwicker (http://www.bacalaophoto.ca/) captured this amazing photograph this morning of Picton Castle surrounded by snow, ice and sea smoke. Thanks, Peter, for letting us sh are it!
Back in December, before Christmas, we finalized the itinerary for Picton Castle’s seventh world circumnavigation. Just because we’ve done this six times before doesn’t mean it’s an easy voyage or one to be taken lightly. Quite the contrary, in fact. It’s an epic voyage that is demanding and challenging no matter how much experience we’ve …
Picton Castle carries a full complement of 52 people, which includes 40 trainee crew and 12 professional crew. While trainee crew don’t need to have any experience sailing, our professional crew are qualified, certified, knowledgeable mariners with hands-on experience. Because Picton Castle is a training ship they have to not only be excellent seafarers, they …
We’re not used to seeing the decks of our mostly tropical-sailing barque covered in snow, but that they are today. It’s not a good day to be working outdoors so Bosun School students are indoors, working on wrapping up a number of projects as they begin their last full week of classes.
