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2025-04-14_Class Afloat – Goodbye, Alex!

Wide eyes, full hearts, can’t leave. Goodbye, Alex. Auf wiedersehen, DSST. Thank you so much for the last six months. The memories we’ve made are unbelievable and unforgettable. 💚 đŸ€…

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2025-04-13_Class Afloat – Last full day on the Alex-2

It was our last full day on the Alex. We spent a lot of the day cleaning the place we’ve called home for the last half year. After one last…

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2025-04-10-Class Afloat – The guards change and the dishwasher is sick

Yesterday we switched over to four-hour watches. The dishpit was not a good place to be today. The dishwasher doesn’t always work so we had to wash some of the…

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2025_04_08 _ Class Afloat – Last Day of class

It was our last day of class yesterday. We got to see a beautiful sunset, surrounded by windmills (there are wind farms in the middle of the ocean here). Everyone…

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2025-04-07 _ Class Afloat – See you again tomorrow

Yesterday the crew witnessed a beautiful sunrise as we entered the traffic separation zone towards Dover. The day was quite full of views on deck: planes flying over from London,…

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2025-04-06 _ Class Afloat _ All hands….

  An all hands call and we were on course, which is not saying a lot because we were going against the wind and current (notice how little our longitude…

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2025-04-05_Class Afloat – Entertainment and Magic

We had another talent show last night. It was nice to do something entertaining for each other on this long voyage. Even Thomas the cook joined in with some magic!…

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2025-04-04_Class Afloat – New OS Floaties onboard!

Lots of activity on the Alex yesterday. Starting at 17:30 and going on into the night and early morning, we must have set and taken down at least 15 sails.…

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2025-04-01 _ Class Afloat – Deep ship clean

Yesterday, we enjoyed a day off from classes. We worked together to partake in a deep ship clean to ensure that the Alex is taken care of on this long…

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2025-03-31 _ Class Afloat – Drill yesterday

We had a drill yesterday where the crew practiced what to do in case someone falls overboard. Later some of us climbed up to the windsock. It’s the highest you…

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