Tag: Seamester

• August 25, 2022

  Barcelona and Sardinia: European Summer Decadence

  After a few days in Gibraltar, the whole crew on board Vela was glad to be back on the open water. Life on passage is cyclical: watch, eat, sleep, study. It follows the rhythm of the chase of the sun and moon, and is only demanding of the sea and wind state. This passage was…
• August 25, 2022

  Roma and the end of the best summer of my life

  Sardinia had been but a blip in time, we had just arrived and were already leaving. Rome (Civitavecchia really, but who cares about an hour car ride distance?) was our next port-of-call . It was also to be our last. Part 1: Student-led passage At the end of every semester, students on board Vela elect…
• August 8, 2022

  Gibraltar: A Big Small Rock

  Hello everyone! This is your trainee mate writing from over the Atlantic ocean in Gibraltar. After seven days at sea, we finally made it to the end point of our ocean crossing and can now officially say, we did it! Coming in to the straight of Gibraltar is weird. After days at sea with little…