Arrive and get to know your fellow crew after storing away your sea bag and learning some of the basic vessel operations on the first day aboard. The Barcelona docks are right downtown so grab a buddy and wonder through the boulevards and narrow streets packed with people. We will soon be down to just our crew as we round the breakwater bound for the south coast of France. Marseilles, St. Tropez, Cannes, Nice, Cap d'Antibes, Monaco - all provide a quiet anchorage and different perspectives of the French Riviera so we'll visit the coastal ports before hoisting the mainsail and plotting a course to Portofino in Italy.

No Italian tourist guide of the Italian waters has ever been published without a photo of Portofino it seems. Just so quaint a port, yet there are more such as the Cinque Terra and Porto Venere that are just as beautiful so we'll soak in them all. Then South once again to Elba where Napoleon was exiled for a stopover enroute to Civitavecchia. Rome can not be missed so we'll take time to visit the major sights before turning our bow in a Westerly direction that we will keep for the rest of the voyage.

Stops along the way interrupt our studies just long enough to sail in and visit the following places -

And finally, with the Atlantic to our stern, we'll arrive into the Caribbean at Grenada, completing our academic studies, sail training and scuba certifications as we head north through the Tobago Keys, past Martinique, Dominica and Guadeloupe to our final destination of the British Virgin Islands.