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For anyone who has sailed with the Barque Picton Castle, or followed the award-winning tall ship’s adventures through television or the internet, the term ‘world voyage’ has a fairly specific meaning. On five occasions over the past...

The sailing ventures of Dave Honey and Dick Honey Posted March 7, 2014 By Kimball Livingston I have something in common with the brothers Honey. Separated by a generation, we never got published in the pages of Yachting Magazine. Five minutes after...

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One July morning in the colorful fishing village of Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, 10 teenagers gather on the dock to prepare for a voyage. The rain is pouring down, dampening the gear, if not the spirits, of the young people about to embark on the adventure...

Barque Picton Castle An Austrian couple, identified only as Irene and Christian, made a distress call last week, on July 31, from their Jeanneau Sun Legende 41, Gobo, in the South Pacific. The three masted barque Picton Castle, sailing in the Cook...