We’re baaaaaack.
First standard voyage sails Sunday. Lots of work done by contractors and volunteers to get her to this stage. No square sails yet - our elderly, very fastidious shipwright spar maker has been busy but cannot be rushed.
Today’s photo of STS Leeuwin II at her normal B Berth in Fremantle, Western Australia. Note nice new white sails
Thank you everyone. I had merely wanted to round off 18 months of depressing down-time, following on from the financial misfortunes of surviving the Leeuwin Ocean Adventure Foundation going into receivership after the strictures of Covid in a tightly communal ship strangled the voyages that are our bread and butter, saved by a local mining billionaire only to then suffer the collision that dismasted her, months of indecision as to the survival of the whole organisation with the centrepiece near-fatally wounded, the decision to rebuild and the work to get her seaworthy and sailing again today.
Well done all.Fair winds and following seas.
