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
Yesterday we said farewell to St George’s, Bermuda and got back to sea. The crew did an excellent job sailing the ship off the dock and out of the Town Cut showing off some good old fashioned square rig sail handling. Now that we are at sea our little world has changed again, it’s easy
Land Ho! Sighted Gibb Hill, Bermuda just after noon today. Its been a good passage and we are all looking forward to seeing our friends in Bermuda. A beautiful star filled night at sea last night and another bright and sunny day today. We should be entering the Town Cut at St. George’s, Bermuda late
What a change! Yesterday afternoon came with our much anticipated crossing of the Gulf Stream. Even when you have crossed in and out of this current before it is always a surprise just how quickly the world around you can change. Very suddenly the water temp shot up to 24°C and the air turned warm
