It is the day of Monday, May 3, 2010 … or in fact during the night … almost the 4th as we head toward Mahon on Menorca, an island in the Balearic archipelago. Since we sailed into the Mediterranean the weather has not been so nice to us … only a few hours of sun [...]

April 26, 2010 after 16 days of Atlantic crossing we pass the famous Straits of Gibraltar, the borderline between two worlds and two different ways of living. We move away from the Caribbean with its quiet way of life where nobody is in rush, where the first things that you see from people are the [...]

On Royal Clipper the two tallest of the five masts are hinged so that mast tops can be easily cranked lower by 19 feet for clear passage under low bridges and power lines without interfering with the ship’s standing rigging.

Here are a couple of photos from the beach cleanup in St. Kitts that we posted about a couple of weeks ago. Thanks to all of the Star Clippers guests who came out! It was a wonderful effort.

More than 70 passengers aboard spv Royal Clipper joined the ship’s on board marine biologist March 31 in St. Kitts for a beach cleanup. The passengers worked to improve turtle breeding grounds in North Friar’s Bay in preparation for the nesting season of the region’s endangered leatherback turtles later this month.
The effort was [...]