Brief Description: Took a 2 month trip on a 100 yr old sailing ship
My S-19 project is continuing after a major distraction. I have finished the fuselage structure and am now starting on the wings. I took time off for a 2 month trip on a square rigged sailing ship from Ushuaia Argentina, past Cape Horn to the Antarctic where we stopped at different spots every day, then to Elephant Island, South Georgia and Tristan de Chuan Islands and on to Cape Town, South Africa. The ship was the 100 year old 3 masted bark Europa. The deal is you pay to join the crew and then work along side them handling sails on deck and aloft, standing lookout and steering on watches through the day and night in all weather. It was quite the fantastic trip, it felt like living in the pages of the National Geographic – 100 years ago. A link to some pictures I took while on the trip is here: https://picasaweb.google.com/109174235115812119564/VoyageOfTheBarkEuropa# All of the pilots I know also love sailing, so I thought some of you might be interested..... After getting home and recovering from my injuries I completed the sub-frame of the left hand wing, debured, primed and riveted it together and am now installing the lower skin. I think I’m going to need more Clecos!