Always expect the unexpected on the Picton Castle. When pulling up anchor this morning it was looking like we would have to motor for a good portion of today’s journey. Not so – rather we sailed, albeit slowly, to our next destination. Upon arrival we furled sails faster than normal as a thunderstorm was on …
Today might be the first time ever aboard the Picton Castle that I was a tiny bit glad for the persistent not so great weather. Rather than leave Rockland amidst a bank of fog the Captain made the call for us to stay another night. What did this mean? It meant that after lunch the …
Written by Ashley Mulock Being someone who sailed on the last leg of the PICTON CASTLE’S sixth world voyage and then immediately signed on for the Tall Ship Festivals along the northeast coast of the United States, I have certainly noticed some differences between the two trips. Taking into account what has changed for me …
REMARKS: Did you know that if you are not one of the people assigned to rust bust, the sound of 10 chipping hammers being used at the same time sounds kind of nice. Like a chorus of softly clinking metal. Listening to it, and trying to pick out what song it most sounded like, certainly …
REMARKS: We tacked and tacked and guess what else…tacked some more! The conditions were right so rather than head straight from point A to point B we had an epic sail handling day. Right up until Mother Nature decided we’d had enough good weather for one day and dumped a pile of rain on us. …
Again today, another beautiful sailing day. The wind was not quite as plentiful as we like but this has the silver lining of allowing us to do a whole lot of sail handling. Our new trainees are quickly grasping what has to get done, both on the deck and aloft on the yards. Becky, our …
Coolest thing ever today – this morning we sailed off the dock out of the harbour in Portland. We have a small crew, a third of which is new, and still we were able to do it! To sweeten the day we also had what I can only think of as a ‘drive by’ by …
REMARKS: We stayed in Portland one extra day, being today, in order to get accomplished a long list of tasks. By staying tied to the dock and focusing on what had to get done we have been able to steadily cross items off the list…without adding anything already done and then slashing a line through …
With the close of the deck tour today we have officially finished our scheduled visits to the Tall Ship Festivals of 2015. From the entire crew of the Picton Castle to the people and visitors of the festivals in Cape Charles, Philly/Camden, Greenport and Portland – thank you so much for choosing to spend some …
REMARKS: There are so many people in Portland who wanted to see the ship I was amazed. At times the wait was over an hour long and yet once aboard our visitors wore nothing but smiles and had lots of interesting questions. For the crew the day was rather hectic. We not only had deck …
