Tall Tales on the High Seas

“I was particularly blessed that night when a bright ball of fire – a meteorite – streaked through the sky barely a kilometre away”

I’D SEEN PICTURES, EVEN WATCHED VIDEOS, but nothing really prepared me for my first sight of the tall ship SV Tenacious. At 64m long, 10.5m wide and 37.5m from the deck to the tip of the main masthead, it is the largest single-hulled wooden ship still sailing the world’s oceans. It’s as though it was transported straight out of the 19th century – or from the set of Pirates of the Caribbean.

Taking a voyage, though, was designed to accommodate crews of mixed abilities, so for me the dream came true.