This has also allowed us to put on more crew members,” Mr McQuaker told Cruise Passenger from his UK office in Ipswich. “We have taken out all the inside cabins and made them outside cabins with ocean view windows. The five-masted Golden Horizon is the world’s largest square-rigged sailing ship at 162m long and boasts some 6300 sq metres of sail.īuilt to be almost the exact replica of France II, a 1913 ocean ship, she can accommodate 272 passengers with no inside cabins. She will spend two months circumnavigating Australia, offering various itineraries including celebrating Christmas on the Great Barrier Reef and New Year on the Gold Coast. Two decades on, the luxury five-masted Golden Horizon will retrace almost the same route next December. His love of the sea first lured him to Australia – he joined the Royal Navy and was commanding officer of the frigate, HMS Northumberland when he first visited Australia calling at Darwin, Cairns and Sydney. Stuart McQuaker, boss of new cruise line Tradewind Voyages and its prized five-masted sailing ship has three passions – the sea, sailing and cooking.
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