By Cara Lauzon Last night was just amazing, the moon was bright and the sailing smooth, clear skies and stars. I (the Purser) stayed on deck almost until midnight because it was so beautiful, and because the 8-12 watch had hot cocoa. This morning we sent up the main royal yard which was exciting, and …
By Cara Lauzon Yesterday afternoon we enjoyed a workshop from the Captain on sail theory and balance. Ship’s cat Fiji was very interested in the material! Woke this morning yet another beautiful wind with sunny skies. Its Sunday at Sea again, we are taking some time to clean things and have some rest. Caleb has …
By Cara Lauzon Yet another beautiful sunny day out here! The 8-12 watch is currently dressing the royal yard to send it up in the next coming days. The new hands are sitting in the sunshine as they learn knots and whippings. Ship’s cat Fiji is as usual helping with the royal yard and being …
By Cara Lauzon We were anchored yesterday in the Turks and Caicos. To our Port was wide open beaches, to our starboard wide open sea. Everybody had the chance to go ashore and enjoy the beaches and sunshine, to go swimming and golf cart riding. The island was small and interesting, beautiful in places, with …
By Cara Lauzon Pleasant evening last night, and a beautiful night. Woke yet again to another sunny day. The wind picked up and we got a little sailing in which was fun. We are now approaching Turks and Caicos with rainbows in the sky! Looks like there are a lot of white beaches and red …
By Cara Lauzon Yesterday evening the sunset was incredible. I caught this photo of Anne-Laure taking sights with a sextant, she has been navigating the entire trip with celestial navigation. It was a night of stars, later the sky filled with them and we had the constellation book out and were trying to find them …
By Cara Lauzon Yesterday afternoon we enjoyed the rest of a Sunday at sea working on personal projects and enjoying the sunshine. Right before dinner the 4-8 set the main topmast staysail and inner jib, helping stabilize the rolling motion of the ship. We woke yet again to clear blue skies! This morning lots of …
By Cara Lauzon We had an amazing afternoon of sailing yesterday with so many different things going on, then as the sun was setting the wind died and we took sail and began motoring. We woke this morning to a clear sky and Sunday at sea. We are still motoring, rolling a bit but the …
By Cara Lauzon With the a continuing good weather there was a flurry of sailmaking all morning. While the Captain worked on a new mizzen staysail, Sailmaker John worked on manrope covers, and in the meantime gave a workshop on seaming for those just learning. The 8-12 watch spent the morning sending up gear in …
By Cara Lauzon Today we had the amazing opportunity to bend on the main sail while at sea. It is so sunny and beautiful, t-shirt weather even aloft! It was a really interesting as well cool experience and some of our new hands who had the chance to work aloft for the first time, for …
