Jubilee Sailing Trust Ships' Blogs
Posted - 27 February 2012
Greetings from the beautiful island of La Palma, where we arrived yesterday late afternoon, in blazing sunshine.
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Posted - 27 February 2012
So after 5 days of hard maintenance we had 3 new arrivals including our new bosun the one and only Clare Cupples!! Wonderful to welcome her on board.
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Posted - 27 February 2012
Maintenance once again! With a total crew of 20 onboard, a lot of work has been completed, including repainting the starboard side of the ship.
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Posted - 27 February 2012
Hello all, we are just enjoying an al fresco lunch under blue skies, in sunshine, and then it will be time for harbour stations.
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Posted - 20 February 2012
Lunch heading into harbour for a fond farewell with ship mates ashore. With grateful thanks to the captain and fulltime crew who kept us all safe.
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Posted - 20 February 2012
San Sebastian. Day of the assisted climb which took place while still in the harbour. Everyone showed Great Spirit and achieved what they thought impossible to them, and passed all expectations and more.
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Posted - 20 February 2012
So the sea was calm as we all watched the Auzura, which some of us had thought was a block of flats, slowly sail past us.
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Posted - 17 February 2012
A star studded night gave us a clear sky as we made our way to El Hierro.
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Posted - 16 February 2012
The first night sail of a trip is always a challenge to the 'rooky' sailor or the old hand alike. After an excellent meal, the ship's company settled down into the routine of either sleep or being on watch.
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Posted - 16 February 2012
Day 1 voy 806
The voyage started with the arrival of the watchleaders at the appointed time in Las Palmas.
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Posted - 14 February 2012
A fisherman returned the escaped fender for a small Caribbean fee!!
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Posted - 14 February 2012
We sailed through the night, the challenge being speed versus direction. And speed won... Beautiful sail all morning.
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Posted - 14 February 2012
After arriving a day late due to the presumed strikes at Paris Orly airport, it was straight on to the 'Bracing the yards' lesson for us.
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Posted - 14 February 2012
Woke up in Gomera to find the skies a little overcast, but at last the wind had dropped. This morning was the assisted mast climb and everyone who tried made it up there overcoming their nerves to receive applause from the rest of the crew below.
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Posted - 10 February 2012
Greetings from Pointe Te Pitre, Guadeloupe! The ship remains' alongside on berth 1 in the harbour of Pointe Te Pitre, and she is looking very sexy after having her port side painted and hand rails varnished.
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Posted - 10 February 2012
Onwards to La Gomera, good night-time sailing under clear skies, above us the full Moon, Jupiter, Venus and Mars!
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Posted - 09 February 2012
Arrived La Palma just in time for dinner, weather overcast, raining.
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Posted - 09 February 2012
The sea was very choppy, a lot more than we were expecting, which caught several people's stomachs by surprise.
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Posted - 09 February 2012
Leaving day for voyage 304 and joining day For voyage 305.The Lord Nelson had its best ever end of voyage clean by voyage 304 during happy hour.
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Posted - 06 February 2012
Today's sunshine seemed far from our minds as we had our watch last night from 2000 hours to 0000 as we travelled between La Gomera and Tenerife and got caught in the middle of Force 8 winds which was NOT pleasant! The only consolation was that it was dry and we could see the stars as well as a few planets.
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Posted - 06 February 2012
Having explored around the island yesterday the intrepid sailors of the Lord Nelson took to climbing the masts of the ship. Today was the turn for assisted climbs where everyone with a little fear and problems with heights gets to go aloft. This is always a highlight of the trip and brings all abilities together under the ethos of the Trust.
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Posted - 06 February 2012
Our daily views consists of sail by viewings of our ship by interested sailors, bright blue sparkling water, clear skies (mostly) and tall palm trees surrounding the ship, it’s a pretty cool place to be...
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Posted - 05 February 2012
Saturday evening saw at us anchor off the south coast of Gran Canaria where we enjoyed sundowners and were serenaded by one of the voyage crew playing Spanish classical guitar music.
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Posted - 03 February 2012
We awoke to clear blue skies this morning and after a hearty breakfast, had the voyage photo taken.
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Posted - 01 February 2012
Our watch last night steered the ship towards La Palma under a crystal clear sky.
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Posted - 01 February 2012
Freezing temperatures seem so far away as blue skies and blue sea tempt us into our sun hats and T shirts while we head for the island of La Palma currently motor sailing with the stay sails.
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