By Cara Lauzon Another exquisite night full of silver moonlight, turning into another clear sunny day. The flying jib has been bent on and test set with success! With the sun returning, the sailmakers are back on deck filling the quarterdeck with white canvas cloth, and ship’s cat Fiji is enjoying sprawling on the cloth […]
By Cara Lauzon Last night was another clear and beautiful night, the moon was so bright it’s hard to tell when it’s dawn. Ship’s cat Fiji was slinking about in the moonlight she seems to be enjoying it. Towards 5:30 it started to cloud over and there were lightning flashes beginning. As the morning wore
By Cara Lauzon Beautiful sunset and night yesterday, as Captain Sikkema put it, “The ship sped along on silver seas under an almost full moon.” This morning and afternoon lots of rigging and painting going on. The galley house is starting to look really good with a fresh coat of paint and the work that
By Cara Lauzon We started our day with unbending and lowering the main t’gallant in order to fix a small tear in the sail. John, our Sailmaker, and the Captain have spent the day working on that as well as a new sail. It’s still beautiful weather, sunny and clear. We were aloft on the
By Cara Lauzon Another beautiful night of clear sailing last night. The wind picked up in the early morning and now we are crossing the Gulf Stream which is causing a fair amount of roll, but we still have fair wind so the sailing is good. Yet another sunny day the color of the water
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
