Royal Clipper day 4 St. Vincent

Only here for the morning. Suzette and I decided to remain on ship and just relax. We are in a small commercial port and didn't want to deal with the hassle there.

Royal Clipper day 3 Tobago Cays

Today is the beach BBQ. We snookered, a ate and went for a ride on a booze cruise cat. Motor sailed the whole damn way. Crap.

Royal Clipper day 1

We are on the Royal Clipper a 5 masted square rigged ship with capacity for 228 passengers. This ship has 5050 square meters of sail area.

Under sail on our way to the Grenadines. It is good to meet our sailing companions from 4 years ago. Today will be an afternoon at the beach.

We were making 6.6 knots at last check.

Life Boat drill. Mass organized confusion.
Crew introductions, program information and safety information. Lunch then time for the beach and water toys. Picked up our snorkel gear to use for the week.

We will be anchored in Union Island, Grenadines.

As you may have guessed, I am updating throughout the day because I don't have much in the way of internet service.

After a scrumptious seafood lunch buffet e changed to our suits and took the launch to the beach. We snookered for a while and I took a turn on a paddle board.
We spent some time visiting before returning to the ship.

After more visiting and a shower it was time for a beer and sail off the anchor at 1700. Then to the tropical bar for a snack and music.

Captains welcome back party at 1900 followed by dinner and entertainment. We were told that 53 folks at the party are repeat customers. There are 163 guests on board.

Royal Clipper day 2 Granada

Another beautiful morning at sea.our expected arrival at St. Georges is 1130 so we will enjoy the morning sail on deck.

Coffee and continental breakfast and lounge on deck until breakfast. Yes we eat.

Watched some of the crew haul a motor from below decks, way down, and lower the replacement. Quite an operation.

We are watching foods climb to the lowest crows best on the main mast. We are under jib and staysail and two squares off the fore mast. Moving along nicely.

As we wetter approaching port the captain have a talk about air foil and lift and how it applies to sails and specifically to a square rigger. The importance of the jibs in control of the ship. Also you may set the fore and aft yards at different angles to balance the boat.

After lunch it was off to town. We didn't stay long. Local taxi drivers hassled us to much.

Back to the ship for a swim off of the swim platform.