It’s Friday, and that means it’s time for Happy Hour! Here is another one of our fabulous cocktails that we serve on board. Roasted Toasted Almond Ingredients: Vodka — 1.3 cl Amaretto — 1.3 cl Kahlua — 1.3 cl Fresh Cream — 2 cl Glass: Martini Shake all ingredients with ice cubes and then pour [...]

Marie Krafft, director of sales for Star Clippers in Monaco, sent in this fun post. Did you know that Star Clippers has a mascot in the headquarters in Monaco? His name is Napoleon and he is a 7-year-old wirehaired dachshund. Napoleon lives like an emperor on board the beautiful wooden yacht Doriana with his owner, [...]

Here are more photos showing Mikael Krafft’s personal schooner, Doriana.

This post was submitted by Marie Krafft, Star Clippers’ director of sales. Star Flyer is now on her way over to Barbados and will afterward set course toward Panama via Venezuela, Curacao, Aruba, Colombia. She will reach the Pacific side of Costa Rica mid November. Before she left the Cote d’Azur, she sailed from Monaco [...]

On Thursday we asked, what does Breeches Buoy mean and where did the term originate? According to “Origins of Sea Terms” by John G. Rogers, a Breeches Buoy is a life-ring with a canvas seat that looks like a pair of breeches or pants. It is fitted with a harness by which it can be [...]