Another summer and another trip - this time to the South Pacific for a spot of tallships sailing on the Soren Larsen. A change of travel style and environment, from the train and China, to the open blue sea of the south Pacific!I'm joining up with the crew of the Soren Larsen, originally a Danish tallship, in Samoa on Sunday afternoon for 18 days worth of sailing between Samoa and Fiji, via Tonga.
The boat has quite a history, including staring in a British TV programme in the 1970s and more recently completing several voyages around the globe. I should be able to sound more clued up on this once I have spent 3 days on the plane getting there reading the blurb and background.
In any case, the boat has a website
which has more pictures as well as a satellite tracking location function if you want to keep a tab on the trip! Navigation skills are something I would like to learn on the ship, given my usually appalling sense of direction!
I actually do sign up as part of the ship's crew - there is a professional crew of 15 and then 15-20 paying passengers.
They give you a choice of the kind of activities you do on there, from the (obligatory) ship's watch to handling the sails and climbing the rigging for the more adventurous...we'll see if I am crazy enough to get myself into this kind of position! :)
I leave Wednesday evening and should be in Sydney Friday, before flying on to Samoa via New Zealand, also arriving Friday thanks to the nifty date line!
Rob
No comments:
Post a Comment