The 284-ton Barque Picton Castle is a traditionally rigged and operated sail training ship based in Lunenburg, Nova, Scotia, Canada, but best known for her voyages around the world. Picton Castle was one of five similar trawlers built by Cochrane's in Selby, all named after British castles. (The actual Picton Castle in Wales is still standing.) The other 'castle' ships have all been taken out of service.  Over the past decade, the ship has made four global circumnavigations, as well as two trips to the Great Lakes and other jaunts up and down the coasts of the United States and Canada.  Along the way we’ve introduced more than 600 people to the rewards of square-rigged sailing. In 2006, ASTA named us its Sail Training Program of the Year.  In the spring of 2008, the Picton Castle cast off on an all-new epic adventure, a 12-month voyage around the Atlantic Ocean.  The voyage included crossing  the famed North Atlantic, exploring North and Central Europe, sailing south to Africa, then back across the Atlantic – and the equator – to Brazil before heading north through the islands of the West Indies. As a training ship all on board work, stand watch, and learn the ways of a square-rigged sailing ship.  Workshops are conducted in wire and rope rigging, sail making, boat handling, navigation and practical seamanship.  The ship also delivers much-needed educational materials and other supplies to the remote islands she visits.  In the summers between major voyages, the Picton Castle makes shorter voyages along the U.S. and Canadian coast.