Adventures on Adventuress

What a whirlwind the past few days have been!  The end of the festival in Victoria was filled with both sadness and excitement.  With the ships closed and the vendors vacated, the festival was quite ghostly.  However, at the same time, I knew I would be sailing the next day so I was excited to see the ship and crew with whom I would be working.  Finally I learned that I would be on Adventuress for the next several days and for the race.  When I arrived in the morning, I found that I was not the only one sailing on Adventuress for the first time that day.  In addition to myself and passengers for the race, the Youth on Board program was joining the ship for the transit to Quartermaster Harbor (about three days).  The youth were high school students between the ages of 14 and 17 who had applied for the opportunity to sail on one of three ships, Zodiac, Mycia, and Adventuress.  Once everyone was on board, we set out from the dock and prepared to start the first race.