How goes the Bosun School, one might ask? Going very well indeed, it is. Since arrival in Lunenburg our participants (from Canada, USA, Finland, Iceland and Denmark) have been very busy! They have been fixing and repairing boats, rowing boats, sailing boats, moving boats, bending sails, handling sails, sending sail down, making knots, splicing ropes, …
The Picton Castle crew woke up this morning, the first workday morning since we changed the clocks back an hour this weekend, with some sun. They put on their long underwear, lots of layers, sweaters and hats and got to work. Craig, Andrew, Dave, Sarah and Jack are in the Dory Shop for the next …
September is, in my opinion, the most beautiful month of the year in Lunenburg. The weather is fairly consistenly nice, with lots of sun, good wind and not too much rain or fog. It’s warm in the sun and just a bit cool in the shade. People around here start to relax as the busiest …
Picton Castle has been in Lunenburg for a week and a half now, and the ship and crew are settling into a routine of life in port. We continue to muster at 0800 every morning, we still start our workday with cleaning the ship, Donald continues to make fantastic meals on the regular schedule and …
The Bosun School, Picton Castle’s shore-side marine skills development opportunity, is quickly approaching. Starting September 1, young mariners will come to Lunenburg, Nova Scotia to advance their development by learning skills that are often difficult to master while at sea. An irony in modern sail training and sea education programs today is that it is …
Here on our wharf in Lunenburg The Bosun School is in full swing and the gang has been busy, very busy. We have had six weeks of almost perfect weather at the ideal time of year. So often we find ourselves working in the cold rain and even snow while we down rig or up …
The next morning everyone was up unusually early (before their third wakeup), seabags packed and ready to go. We trooped down the street, hopped the fence at the Fisheries Museum, scampered down the ladder on the dock, and threw our gear aboard Pride of Baltimore II. I can’t speak for everyone else, but I was …
