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February the fifth was a pretty typical day on the Alex – as mundane as life gets when you live and work on a tallship. It was our first day…

Yesterday was amazing! We set sail, saw whales, caught a rainbow, and enjoyed a stunning sunset. Then we started cruising along the Dominican coast, heading toward Havana, Cuba. What a…

    We got to swim where Johnny Depp swam. I could smell him. I stepped on a crab. I’m so sorry. Don’t wear jeans into the rainforest. You’ll regret…

We’re back! After 10 days of semester break, we floaties all came flooding back onto the Alex yesterday afternoon. Because the ship was at anchor, we got to return via…

    The last day of exams, the last day of swim call, the last normal day for five of us… Yesterday was a high-energy day: we finished writing exams…

It was the first day of exams yesterday and it showed. Everyone was giving off all this weird energy. What helped us burn it off was the swim call we…

Yesterday saw the heist of the year perpetrated by none other than Brychan and his Oceans 11 class. The whole class devised an elaborate scheme to steal a high-value item…

After a quiet New Year’s day, we floaties got right back into sailing with the resumption of the standing watches. Watch 6 was first up at 18:00, setting seven sails…

  It was another memorable night aboard the Alex. After a full day of class, the Stamm crew dropped surprise after surprise on the floaties. First, the officers and deck…