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Now Hiring – Picton Castle Operations Assistant (9-month term)

Picton Castle is a sail training tall ship best known for extended international voyages to exotic ports and islands.  Trainee crew, who require no previous sailing experience before signing on, join the ship for an adventure at sea and to learn seamanship skills while working together under the guidance of the professional crew to sail …

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Setting off

My first vessel of any significance was the Brixham Trawler Ketch MAVERICK under Captain Jack Carstarphen. She was engaged as an island windjammer sailing in the British Virgin Islands. The year was 1972, I was 18 and keen to get back the Caribbean islands of my childhood and go to sea in island schooners of …

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