Stories from the sea, voyage updates, crew tales, and maritime knowledge.
24 Apr 2026
By Christoffer A. Sørensen, crew. We arrived in the Malaysian part of Borneo, in a port called Kudat, a major center of the indigenous Rungus culture. The crew was excited to see what wonders the island had to offer…
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31 Mar 2026
By Meg Watt, Captain Neptun has recently arrived in Borneo, a much anticipated stop on our voyage, and this change of scenery is an opportunity for us to look back over the previous couple of months of our voyage. Our initial voyage trai…
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3 Mar 2026
By Connor Rae, crew After our time at sea, and our impromptu diesel run, the crew were all eager for some time with solid ground beneath our feet. To make it to Surigao City, we had to time the approach with a tidal channel. We rocketed…
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5 Feb 2026
By Alex Sutherland, crew We began our journey in Palau, a UNESCO World Heritage site that feels less like a countryand more like a living postcard. It’s a place where WWII history sleeps beneath turquoise water,where coral walls drop int…
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28 Jan 2026
First, I would like to introduce myself. Meg Watt, Captain of SV Neptun af Marstal. I come originally from Australia, and started to work at sea in 2008. Since then, I have spent most of my time on boats, in many different vessels, in ma…
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19 Dec 2025
By Victoria Hardy (ship's cook) Thirty-six days at sea. Thirty-six spectacular sunsets. Thirty-six days of blistering heat, punctuated by sudden squalls and violent downpours, the shifting weather mimicking the wild swings between euphor…
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Sold outMay 2026 — Aug 2026 · Bali, Indonesia → Réunion, France
The opening chapter of Neptun's 482-day world voyage, a 4,078-nm trade-wind passage from the temples of Bali to the volcanic cliffs of Réunion.
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AvailableNov 2026 — Dec 2026 · Réunion, France → Cape Town, South Africa
Fifty days and twenty-three hundred miles of open Indian Ocean from volcanic Réunion to the tip of Africa, the Agulhas current, the Cape of Good Hope, and a quiet finish in Cape Town before Christmas.
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AvailableJan 2027 — Mar 2027 · Saldanha Bay, South Africa → Fortaleza, Brazil
Forty-four days before the southeast trades, Napoleon's exile at St. Helena, the equator crossing, and landfall in tropical Brazil. The ocean chapter of the voyage.
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AvailableMar 2027 — Apr 2027 · Fortaleza, Brazil → Trinidad
A thousand miles of downwind trade running, the Amazon's brown water under the hull, the Guianas smudged on the horizon, and Trinidad's steelpan waiting at the end.
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AvailableApr 2027 — May 2027 · Trinidad → Antigua
Four weeks of short trade-wind daysails through the Lesser Antilles, turquoise anchorages, rum shops on the sand, French-Creole Martinique and the tall-ship scene in Antigua.
Read more about this leg → about Leg 7: through the Windward Islands from Trinidad to Antigua
AvailableMay 2027 — Jul 2027 · Antigua → Ponta Delgada, Azores
Fifty-six days on the classic spring tall-ship route home, Antigua, a long reach to Bermuda's pink sand, then three weeks of open ocean to the volcanic Azores.
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AvailableJul 2027 — Aug 2027 · Ponta Delgada, Azores → Kiel, Germany
The final 1,878 nm, from volcanic São Miguel to the Baltic, up the English Channel through the Dover TSS, past Helgoland's red cliffs and home to Kiel.
Read more about this leg → about Leg 9: homecoming from the Azores to Kiel