Category: Caribbean
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Follow Our Journey! Staff Training A
By Josephine A June 7, 2024 Written by Josie A., Social Media Coordinator Coming from far and wide to our home base at Hodges Creek Marina, the first round of staff started to arrive for staff training! As they arrived, our leadership welcomed them aboard boats Samoa and Mile Hi to settle in before a…
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Follow Our Journey! Summer Echo Days 4-6
Written by Emily Michaelse Having slept next to turtles and watched the sunrise we woke up on the fifth day of our journey in Little Harbor surrounded by sparkling water. Finishing a delicious helping of Chloe’s world-famous blueberry pancakes we jumped into the bright blue water below us and retrieved a fallen bowl from the…
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Follow Our Journey! Summer Echo
The first program of the summer has set sail on a wonderful 14-day adventure. The five students arrived to the dock at Hodges Creek Marina with smiling faces and unpacked their things onto their monohull named Nosy Be. They had a wonderful dinner of chicken, rice, veggies, and coleslaw. Plus, it was Will’s birthday so…
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Offshore sail training Portugal
November 17, 2023 Lagos, Portugal I am writing this as the sun is slowly setting in Lagos. FALKEN has now been washed, scrubbed, emptied and re-stored following her post-passage checklist that we thoroughly follow. There is an aura of accomplishment, relive and just general awesomeness feeling onboard and not just for the successful trip that…
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Big Glows & Small Glums | PORTUGAL SAIL TRAINING
Another day has gone by and another day of Big Glows and Small Glums. The crew woke up to a stunning sunrise this morning followed by the mandatory morning swim. It is one of my absolute favourites moments of anchoring, waking up in the morning, jump in, get out, fresh water rinse and sit with…
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The Big Pink Kite | PORTUGAL SAIL TRAINING
Alex & Mia came on deck to lead the crew in hoisting the big pink kite. Everything takes 10x longer with new crew on the first try, but out here we have nothing but time, so it took the time it needed to take to get everything set right. With Mia on the helm, we…
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Afternoon sail and MOB practice | Portugal Sail Training
November 12, 2024. This morning we woke up on anchor just off the beach and cliffs in Sagres, usually the crew struggle to get a good night sleep the first night, new noises, a bit or nerves and new crew mates. Second night though, most crew sleep like a rock. Yesterday was the first morning…
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Fog & Light Wind in Portugal | Portugal Sail Training
Foggy morning in Lagos on Portugal’s Algarve coast. Mia, Alex and mate-in-training Manot are onboard FALKEN this morning getting started with the standard safety & pre-depature briefings. I’m writing from the hotel adjacent to J Dock where I stayed last night in an attempt to sleep off the last lingering effects of a cold I…
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Follow Our Journey! Lates – Day 11
As the sun rose over the Anegada mooring field, our campers made ready quick to eat breakfast and drop the ball as we had a long sail ahead of us. The sail from Anegada to Leverick Bay on the North Sound was pretty windy and wavy yet everyone did a great…
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Follow Our Journey! Lates – Day 12
Written by Abigail W., Camper on Jelliblu Today we woke up to the sound of the radio explaining that it’s race day, we had some eggs, toast, and bacon for breakfast along with cereal if we wanted. Then, we did our pre-departure checks and dropped the ball. We sailed…