850 kg of mast and rigging down in 12 minutes
Another waiting day in Lowestoft owing to easterly winds was spent training the crew in lowering and raising the…
The children of the Kirkley and Pakefield Football Club
The Sea Stallion has it own ways of thanking for hospitality
Change of watch on the Sea Stallion
When the crew is told that the Sea Stallion is to sail the next morning, everyone tries to get to bed suitably…
A warrior king’s burial place
The Sea Stallion’s crew visited an English burial place where an Anglo-Saxon warrior king was buried in his…
Extract from logbook, 22 July 2008
Lowestoft harbour
9.00 Breakfast
9.45 Skipper’s briefing:
There is no change in the weather. The forecast is…
Long-voyage blues
Still in Lowestoft. The ship has been cleaned, the change of crew is over – but the waiting is not.
The weather…
“Falling in the water is a really bad idea”
With the sea grinding its teeth in anger and the Sea Stallion waiting for the right wind at Lowestoft in England,…
Extract from logbook, 20 July 2008
Lowestoft harbour
8.45 Departure for the crew travelling home
10.00 Breakfast
11.00 Bus to Sutton Hoo, room for…