Tall ship crew required?

single said:
Interesting if you have the time-
http://www.picton-castle.com/voyages?gclid=CLyhj-6LhrgCFQTItAodIHoAJQ
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...and the money, as Wandering Star says. Not sure why he thinks it's for "sprogs" though, I've seen a fair scattering of older folk in their crew lists when I've browsed the site in the past.

It is something I'd like to do one day, time and money permitting which they probably never will. As I often mention, I've done a number of shorter trips with the Tall Ships Youth Trust, averaging about two weeks, but I think a Picton Castle voyage would be a very different experience. Be interesting to see what sort of voyages they're doing now; I believe their long-time captain recently retired, and they announced that they would no longer be doing the many-month "World Voyages" they used to.

Pete
 
Wandering Star said:
....... and the money, £22,500 is a tad more than most people including myself could afford to spend on a one off holiday for their sprogs though I'm sure there are priviliged kids from wealthy families who can.

Cheers, Brian.
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I was looking at it thinking, 'old boat, training' 'it is probably not a paid position' ' i will probably have to pay for my flights' THEN i find out you actually have to pay ha and its not cheap either. For the money you could spend 5 months at UKSA become an ocean yacht master and then in a year double the training cost in pay from a year of work.

I think a boat like that, its awesome fun but sorry to say im out.
 
ribrage said:
Take a look for "tall ship chronicles" it was a documentary about the Picton Castle and her various crew , really addictive watching , if you find it as a box set somewhere let me know !
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Tall Ship Chronicles

http://ruk.ca/content/tall-ship-chronicles

Produced by Halifax-based Topsail Entertainment , the programme is a 16-part documentary about the passage of the Barque Picton Castle around the world, from Lunenburg, NS, through the Panama Canal, the South Sea, Australia, South Africa and back to Lunenburg.

The show is hosted by Andrew Younghusband, actor and sometimes TV reporter; he is affable, an excellent narrator, and because he actually did the voyage as a bona-fide crew member (which is the exception rather than the rule in “reality” television), is a compelling watch.

The series was never distributed on VHS tapes or DVDs because it was thought that there would not be enough interest to warrant the investment and that the costs would be too high.

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Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tallship_Chronicles

Tall Ship Chronicles was a television series produced in Canada in 2001 and 2002. It followed the training of Canadian journalist and actor Andrew Younghusband on an 18-month sail training voyage around the World, on the barque Picton Castle.

Originally, a new episode was aired approximately once per month. Some of the people in the show are the ship's professional crew, while many are trainees who joined the ship to travel or learn about tall ship sailing. The number of crew when the ship began its voyage from Nova Scotia, Canada, was approximately four dozen. Some of the trainees had only booked one leg of the voyage while others had signed on for the entire 18 months. Some left early because they fell in love while on board — or because of personality conflicts — while others decided to stay on board longer than they'd initially planned.

The show follows the interpersonal relations between many of the people on board while also showing a bit about the various islands the ship visits during the voyage. This is not a reality show - it is a television production that began after those on board had made the decision to join the ship.

This was the Picton Castle's second sail-training voyage around the World. The vessel contained a supply of text books in her hold, which she distributed to a number of isolated communities in the South Pacific, including The Cook Islands, Pitcairn Island, Tonga, French Polynesia, Samoa, and Fiji.

The show first aired in Canada and has subsequently been aired on various minority channels in Europe.

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TheEmpire.bz

After searching for years a set of recordings has now been found.

* You'll need uTorrent v. 1.8.3 (no earlier / later version is allowed)
* Then create a free membership to TheEmpire.bz
* Then login.
* Then Browse (search) for "tallship chronicles"
* Click on the link to download the torrent file for S01E01 - the first ep.
* Then open this into uTorrent and wait.
* The file will be downloaded onto your C: drive - probably within a day.
* Once complete leave it seeding for others to share
* Repeat for the other eps.

* Spread the word ...

* Enjoy.

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tico said:
Met the 'Picton Castle' at Carriacou in the Grenadines last year... pretty ship.
Interesting name as 'Picton' has many links around South Wales.
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Pretty ship it may be - but run safely? I urge folks to view the CBS exposure of the cover-up conducted by the ship when Laura Gainey was washed overboard in an Atlantic storm in 2006. The official report from the investigation concluded that the fault lay firmly with the weak leadership on board, the poor condition of the ship and its equipment, and the lack of safety procedures especially in adverse weather.

If you get to watch Tallship Chronicles - clips of this were used by the CBS - you will see the cavalier attitude on board towards safety by the *lack* of use of any form of harness for working on deck, on the yards, or in the rigging. As an experienced tall ship sailor with the UK's STA (as was) and JST and on other European-based tall ships I sat watching horrified at what the crew were asked to do on the yards - without any form of protection.

I leave it to you guys to judge whether the ship is a safe ship or not.

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Overboard - The Picton Castle

http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/2008-2009/overboard/video.html

On the awful night of December 8, 2006, Canadian hockey legend Bob Gainey got the phone call that told him his daughter, Laura, was missing in the turbulent waters of the Atlantic." She was crew on the Picton Castle.

The CBC's "fifth estate" investigated Laura's death and first broadcast its findings on November 28, 2007. In that report, Overboard, the "fifth estate" told the story of a ship that had sailed too late in the season, was undermanned, and did not follow basic safety rules.

http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/overboard/

The findings of the first "fifth estate" documentary were confirmed in a report by the Transportation Safety Board on October 30, 2008. Then the Transportation Safety Board (TSB) released its long-awaited report on the death at sea of Laura Gainey.

Read the TSB's Report

http://www.tsb.gc.ca/en/reports/marine/2006/m06f0024/m06f002...

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Laura Gainey was a crew-member on the tall ship Picton Castle when she was swept overboard as the ship sailed through a fierce storm and high seas on a voyage from Nova Scotia to Grenada. Laura's death was headline news across the country. In the days that followed, the explanation of how this could have happened seemed simple enough — the 25-year-old Laura had been an unfortunate victim, in the wrong place at the wrong time, swept away by a "rogue wave." The fact that she wasn't wearing a safety harness or even a life preserver didn't raise many questions at the time.

But Gillian Findlay, a "fifth estate" team member, obtained eyewitness accounts of other crew-members aboard the Picton Castle as well as videotape from that fateful voyage. They also obtained copies of not one, but two, conflicting reports that were commissioned to investigate the incident. Reports that had never been made public. The first was critical of the Picton Castle, but that report was shelved, and a second — called by some a cover-up — was written, praising the ship and putting much of the responsibility for the accident on Laura.

But, Laura's father, Bob Gainey, was not about to accept that conclusion and he embarked on a fight to have the truth about his daughter's death, revealed. The result, the TSB's report, confirmed the findings of the original "fifth estate" documentary as well as the conclusions of the first report.

Now, hear what Bob Gainey has to say about his face-to-face meeting with the Picton Castle's captain and about the Gainey family's long fight to establish the truth about Laura's death. "I think there was a point in time where they knew we weren't going away," he tells Gillian Findlay. "This is a terrible tragedy that could have been avoided."

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