We’ve cast off lines and put Honolulu to our rudder. Soon we’ll leave Hawaii in our wake as we sail on towards Japan.
Instead of a quiet night watch we braced all three masts sharp to sharp then doused and furled almost all the square sails.
Meridian passage fix within a few NM of the ships GPS. (That’s nautical miles, not nanometers)
Winds have picked up so we doused and furled the main royal and sky sails and then hauled out the spanker on the mizzen.
We doused and sea stowed the main topgallant, royal and sky sail before bed, and the other watch unfurled them this morning.
According to my calculations we crossed longitude 180 from west to east and have sailed into the future.
We have officially entered the Domain of the Golden Dragon and Wednesday is no more.
Wore ship and braced around. Now enjoying the quiet moonlight on the last lookout of this night watch.
@th used to go sailing as a kid, though never on quite such a large watch. Would love to do it again though
@th is it better over there...?
If you cross the international date line from West to East, haven't you sailed back into yesterday? Considering your conveyance is also from there, perhaps it's for the best.
@th Former tall ship crew here...
I can hear this picture ;)
@th whoa sweet stuns'ls
@th All the sails!
@th that is sweet. Thanks for sharing. In the old days when ships were made of wood and men were made of steel we used to write the starboard cloud as the "stuns'ls".
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Gorgeous ship and gorgeous photos. Thanks for posting these!
Here @th 's story entices me to post more. Sights like these really strike the awe at the hearth of all
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I've never seen such a photo of a tall ship before. Impressive.
Sometimes stun sails switch sides. Be careful...
@th I would be sooooo scared
@th What're the tiny Port/Starboard bands visible at center? Markers for correlating to a specific sail?
@th this is so cool! Where can I find more information about your trip and the ship?
@asciijungle Unless I'm totally confused (not impossible) it's this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stad_Amsterdam
https://www.stadamsterdam.com/en/
https://www.stadamsterdam.com/en/world-tour-232425/
@th Is that land in the distance?
@th Sign me up for the press gang.
@th what sort of trip is that? Is it for tourists and they watch the crew do their work? Or do you climb up there yourself? 😮
It looks like an exciting adventure - thanks for sharing.
@th Sail names are a bit like x86 opcode names… 😅
@th it's wild to me that the bell is on the bow.
@th ah, that makes sense! That's the main bell I suppose? Biggest ship I sailed was a ~40m barquentine, it only had the bell near the helm station.
Now THERE is a sentence we all wish we could utter once, unironically, in our lives.
"Winds have picked up so we doused and furled the main royal and sky sails and then hauled out the spanker on the mizzen."
Time to unfurl the fore royal.