Guest Harriet Hall sent in this beautiful sunset photo of the bowsprit net taken on the Royal Clipper crossing from Lisbon to Barbados.

Guest Amanda Behrmann shared these great bow net photos.

Guests Ian and Katy Hope shared this note and beautiful sunsets photos from their Star Clipper cruise.

As the new brochure dropped into the letterbox today, we could think of no better reason to review our photographic memories of a truly marvellous voyage. We have recently met up with some great people we got to know on our trip and I am sure there are many more of the 143 guests who may like to keep in touch. So…class of July 2009… I know there’s, many more wonderful photographs out there that will inspire us all….let’s share.
A beautiful ship, inspiring guests, gorgeous locations, superb weather almost equal paradise, to complete the equation we needed the people who really made the difference. So thank you to our courageous Captain and his extremely competent crew, the chief engineer and his boys and our creative sail master plus the beautiful and entertaining cruise director and her sports and entertainment team along with our welcoming hotel manager and devoted staff. Now then back to that brochure… – Ian and Katy

Guest Claudia Brooks shared this great video she shot of fellow guests climbing to the crow’s nest on Royal Clipper.

Yesterday we asked, what does “jury” mean and where did the term originate?

A jury is a temporary or makeshift arrangement of any of a vessel’s gear due to damage, such as a jury rudder. There are a few possibilities to its origins; one an old French word, jornal, or jurnal, for the day, implyng temporary; another also old French, ajuirer, to help and this one goes back to Latin, adiutare, aid.

The phrase “jury rigged” has been in use since at least 1788. However, the adjectival use of “jury” in the sense of makeshift or temporary dates from at least 1616, when it appeared in A Description of New England. It appeared again, in a similar passage, in Smith’s more extensive The General History of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles published in 1624.