Voyages

Tall Ships, USA, Canada, Europe, Africa, Tradewinds, Transatlantic, Caribbean Islands, the Spanish Main, Yucatan, Cuba, Bahamas. One year. 15,000 miles all under sail. Casting off April 2012 for the voyage of a lifetime.

Be a crew member on this epic voyage and learn time honoured seafaring skills, meet people in their terms in their own countries and their own homes, challenge yourself daily, make enduring friendships with shipmates who become like family and have adventures you'll be telling stories about for the rest of your life.

Set sail from Lunenburg, Canada in April 2012, bound for the east coast of the USA via the pink sand beaches of Bermuda. Join an international fleet of some of the most beautiful traditional sailing vessels in the world, sailing in company with them between ports on the Atlantic seaboard. Make friends with international tall ship sailors, feel the warm and welcoming spirit in cities and towns that love tall ships!

Parting from the fleet, make the classic deep water ocean passage across the Atlantic from Nova Scotia to Ireland. Begin an exploration of Europe in Baltimore and then Dublin, Ireland, before crossing the Irish Sea to Milford Haven, Wales, the closest port to the actual Picton Castle for which our ship is named. Pass through the Kiel Canal in Germany on the way to the Aaland Islands and their fascinating history of square-rigged ships. Visit Danish ports including Copenhagen, then begin to head south to Spain and Portugal to stay with warmer weather.

Explore exotic Africa in Essaouira and Dakar. Cross the Atlantic again, propelled by the consistent trade winds of the mid-Atlantic. Island-hop through tropical paradise in the Eastern Caribbean, visiting islands and meeting people in ways not accessible to regular tourists. Complete the Old World to New World transition in the Dominican Republic and Cartagena, seeing places the Spanish explorers built with the intent to stay. Check out the Panama Canal Zone, unlock the mysteries of the Yucatan. Soak up culture in Cuba, explore the islands of the Bahamas and sail north through the Atlantic to Lunenburg again.

Become a crew member for a year, for four or eight months, and now, for as little as two weeks.