Captain's LogLunenburg kicked off the festive season in style this past weekend. On Friday evening the waterfront was lit up, including the t’gallant masts and bowsprit on Picton Castle. The colourful lights on the vessels, including the fleet at the Fisheries Museum of the Atlantic, the fishing vessels at Adams & Knickle, the schooner Bluenose II, […]
The PICTON CASTLE and The Chandlery are excited to announce that we will be hosting the Annual Yuletide Sale on Saturday, November 13th from 1:00pm to 6:00pm. Join us at The Chandlery storefront at 174 Bluenose Drive in Lunenburg to celebrate an afternoon of holiday cheer, hot beverages, and shopping! We will also be unveiling […]
Picton Castle Operations Assistant (18-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 […]
Last week we marked the end of the Bosun School Summer 2021 program with a graduation ceremony for the students. It had been a wonderful summer for Bosun School on the Lunenburg Waterfront: a lot was learned and a lot of very hard work was put forward by the students over the past three months, […]
We are very pleased to announce two upcoming sessions of the Bosun School, one focused on rigging in the autumn of 2021 and one focused on sailmaking in the winter of 2022. Both sessions will take place in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, Canada. Bosun School is designed to help up-and-coming mariners enhance their hands-on seamanship skills. […]
Yesterday afternoon, Captain Moreland led a workshop that introduced the Bosun School students to caulking. We had been waiting until more of our students arrived to get into this specialized skill. Our gang of Canadian students started in mid July and we have been joined over the past few days mostly by students from the […]
Picton Castle is scheduled to set sail on her eighth world circumnavigation voyage shortly. We had hoped, almost expected, to be able to begin the voyage this autumn, but travel restrictions and advisories currently in place because of the COVID-19 pandemic mean that sadly, we must postpone the start of this voyage until the spring […]
Last week, Bosun School students were given an excellent opportunity to learn about fixed moorings by helping overhaul moorings at the Dory Shop to make them safe and secure. Moorings are like permanent anchors for vessels. They serve the same purpose but are quite different than anchors. Captain Michael Moreland of Ironbound Rigging was engaged […]
Last Friday in Lunenburg the sun was shining, and it was such a beautiful day on the waterfront. It was the perfect opportunity for Bosun School students to launch two of the Picton Castle’s wooden boats and practice some rowing! But first the team had to get the boats to the beach to launch. This […]
The beautiful, world-renowned Schooner BLUENOSE II is a Lunenburg, Nova Scotia icon. She is one of the largest two-masted schooners in the world. The original Bluenose was launched as a Grand Banks fishing and racing schooner on 26 March 1921 in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia. It was designed by William Roué and built by the Smith […]