Maggie here, from the Picton Castle shore crew. Normally I’d be writing to you from our Lunenburg office, but today I’m writing to you from my living room. In an effort to do our part to flatten the curve, our shore crew have been working from home for the past two weeks. For me, that […]
I recently joined the shore crew of the Picton Castle, and after just a few weeks of work in the office I am so happy to have become a part of this welcoming team. My name is Danielle, and as a born-and-raised Nova Scotian I have come to need the ocean like oxygen. I have […]
Categories
Coronavirus and PICTON CASTLE
Dear PICTON CASTLE crew for our voyage to the South Pacific, It is pretty clear that have been some dramatic and significant changes in our world in the past few weeks. We continue to look into how these changes affect PICTON CASTLE and our upcoming voyage to the South Pacific. As we announced earlier this […]
A little while ago I received a note from some family of friends who were out sailing around the South Pacific Ocean in their cruising yacht. They had asked me for, received and followed some advice about where to go and what to look for in the Tuamotu group northeast of Tahiti and the Society […]
To all Picton Castle crew, Like everyone else keen on our upcoming Voyage to the South Pacific in the PICTON CASTLE, we’ve been watching the news here as this coronavirus predictably expands. We have also been gathering information from other ships and our agents and contacts in the countries we intend to visit. We knew […]
By Trudi Inglis Over the years, I’ve spoken with many parents and grandparents who have children or grandchildren who want to come and sail on one of Picton Castle’s voyages. One thing we all know about parents (grand or otherwise) is that they tend to worry. And if they’re talking to me, then they’re worrying […]
We are were in Durban, South Africa, in December 1976 in the pretty 80’ Danish wooden Brigantine ROMANCE, the ship with so much of her DNA in PICTON CASTLE, about to set off around the Cape of Storms and onwards towards Cape Town. We were westward bound around the world on a long, almost two […]
This is Trudi writing. Someone who has never sailed in Picton Castle or any other sail training vessel. People wonder how on earth I ended up working for a tall ship being so entirely unfamiliar with sail training or sailing ships or sailing at all. Living locally, I knew of the Picton Castle of course, […]
Sailing from Nova Scotia southbound for the tropics can be quite the treat as well as a challenge in a big old school square-rigger. Any kind of vessel really. We sail southbound for the Caribbean Sea in the Picton Castle in June. South to the Caribbean for the summer? Is this crazy? Not at all. In […]
Categories
Galapagos Islands
Galapagos, Even Better Than I Imagined Maggie here, from Picton Castle’s shore crew. I’ve been incredibly fortunate to have sailed with Picton Castle to the Galapagos not once but twice. When I was first interested in sailing as a trainee, the Galapagos Islands was one of the ports I was most excited about. Why? To […]