Lining Up the Next Shot

[aggienaut]

   In an act of particularly fortuitous timing, the contract came in today to make it official -- on the 29th of November (two weeks after returning from this trip I'm about to embark upon*) I am boarding the tallship Lady Washington in Vancouver, Washington. Among other things, the ship was the only real sailing ship used in the movies Pirates of the Caribbean (the rest were models or sets). I will be sailing about on the LW for several weeks! :D

   The ship will be sailing down the Colombia and then up to coast to it's home port in Aberdeen.

Nov 30th - Vancouver, WA to Kalama, WA
Dec 02nd - Kalama, WA to Cathlamet, WA
Dec 04th - Cathlamet, WA to Astoria, OR
Dec 09th - Astoria, OR to Ilwaco, WA
Dec 14th - Ilwaco, WA to Westport, WA
Dec 17th - Westport, WA to Aberdeen, WA
(is there a way to make google maps map out nautical routes?)

   Thereafter the ship goes in for repairs and I'll probably transfer to the Hawaiian Chieftain (another tallship), which will be then sailing down the California coast.


   * I'm planning on using the two weeks between adventures to full time look for what I'm going to do next after the sailing. Figure I'll try another round of trying to land that Serious Job.


Not Entirely Unrelated Picture

Damn powerboat lurking behind the tallship mucking up my picture ):

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18 HOURS TILL DEPARTURE!

Comments

[nibot.livejournal.com]

whoah, that's crazy

how does it work?

do they pay you or do you pay them? or neither?

[emosnail.livejournal.com]

I pay them an initial fee to cover their trouble over my training and such but thereafter I just get room and board. Presumably if they think I'm awesome and want me to hang around even longer they could offer to pay me.