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Location: Underway Author: Hannah Dale Puke, amazing, a gale, some serious stank, feelings of awe at 15 ft seas… we’ve had our first sail! While underway from Civitavecchia, Italy to Palma, Mallorca, we finally experienced enough wind to turn off the main engine and use our sails to power us 8+ knots to our next [...]

Location: Underway Author: Martin Herbert-Burns Today we cross the one-third mark of our journey. It feels to me that we have been here longer, although it’s only been one month. To date at the current time of 18:44 we have traveled 1,443 nautical miles and counting, we have toured Spain, France, Monaco, Italy, the Italian [...]

Location: English Harbour, Antigua Author: Laurie The first order of business today was to finish up the confined water dives. All of the open water divers passed with flying colors and came back to Argo grinning from ear to ear, as did their instructors. Following lunch we brought up the anchor and headed back around [...]

Location: Green Island, Antigua Author: Kristine Faloon It’s been another fantastic day aboard Ocean Star. After breakfast we fed our minds with some marine biology knowledge of estuaries and then rocked into a day of diving. Green Island is a beautifully calm spot, surrounded on many sides by reef. The Divemaster candidates took off to [...]

Ezra calls in with an update from S/Y Argo after their first full day on passage across the Atlantic Ocean. Click the link below to listen to the podcast. ArgoNov162011