STORIES

All photos contributed When Captain Daniel Moreland first found the vessel that would become Picton Castle in a Norwegian shipyard in 1991, she hardly looked destined to become one of the world's most respected sail-training ships. Operating then as the freighter Dolmar, the riveted-steel vessel had already lived several lives: built in England in 1928 as a steam trawler, serving as a Royal Navy minesweeper during the Second World War, and later working the North Sea and Balt

Eamonn Doorly doesn't like to talk about himself. Luckily, his work speaks for itself. Born into a family of academics and writers in Lake Huron, Doorly knew early he didn't have quite the same mind as those around him. While most of his family was happy with their nose in a book, "I was always out in the fields building something," he says. In school he struggled to understand concepts on paper, but he loved working with his hands and he loved being on the water. "Right from

The schooner Tree of Life began as an ambitious dream: a traditional-looking vessel that could carry family and friends around the world, without the weaknesses of a conventional plank-on-frame wooden boat. That dream took shape in a Nova Scotian boat shop. Kelly Kellogg had recently sailed from Europe and wanted a vessel capable of long ocean passages. “I always wanted to build a boat," recalls Kellogg. He had seen a schooner in Amsterdam and wanted to buy it but the owner t