Final Voyage?

I have finished the final voyage of the season, and potentially of my career as a mariner. It started like most of the others: we loaded up the fridge, filled the ship with students and off we went. I wish I had a lens wide enough to take a photo of the stocked drystore.

We sailed up to Coles Bay again and exchanged the students for another group who had been hiking for the past few days. The weather was pretty good most of the way, but the trip across Storm Bay sickened the students, as usual. Once we were past that, we had a day where we set nearly every sail:

We dropped the kids off at Maria Island for a bit, so here’s the obligatory happy snap:

The Marlinspike Sailor

Hervey Garrett Smith’s The Marlinspike Sailor is probably my favourite book in the ship’s library, as it is one of those rare books that’s both entertaining and instructive. The dry humour that runs through the text makes it a very endearing read.