Wow. What a seriously cool ship that is! The biggest ship I ever helped sail (hah, "ship", it was really just a boat) was a little one that I went round bits of Brightlingsea in on a sailing day out in year 9 at school. (That's a lot of conjunctions in one sentence; wonder what the record is for that.) We also did donutting, which is when you're towed in a big rubber ring behind a speedboat (much nicer than banana-boating because you're not supposed to fall off) and we were supposed to do raft-building as well, but it was too rough. Sigh. Not a patch on sailing a big ship round bits of New Zealand though. Best wishes for a successful voyage, etc., and try to give us people waiting breathlessly on dry land an account of how it all went.

Phil-"I wonder who holds the record for 'most sets of annoying brackets' in a post..."-bee