The church from the picture! Aosaga Urakyokai is the name...I don't remember what that means. It was built in 1910. Nagasaki is the area of Japan with the longest history of Christianity.

Akogare anchored in the bay of the Goto Island of NakaDori Shima.

Planning our day trip. We get to go ashore!

We went to sleep and woke up here...nice!

The permanent crew of the Akogare. The flash is covering up Tono, one of the two young women officers on board.

Going under the big bridge in Nagasaki. You can't even see the top! It was SO foggy!

The ship scouts (or something like that) prepare to salute us as we embark.

Me chillin on the deck. Max was up in the rigging taking the picture.

The foggy morning we left.

The Koreana, another ship at the festival, leaving Nagasaki

Captain Aki (2nd from left) at the closing ceremony. We all stood in a special area for crew members right up front.

The info board

Docked at Nagasaki

Akogare in Nagasaki bay

The main mast and the mizzen mast.

The fore-mast with the 3 yards and the fore gaff.

Preparing the trainess to go aloft. Make sure those safety belts are tight!

Climbing the fore-mast. One trainee is climbing down. The toughest part of the climb is just below the platform where the ratlines are like climbing on the underside of a ladder. There are no safety cables either, so you've just got to do it.

The Bowsprit. Those who didn't want to climb the masts got to crawl out on the bowsprit to watch.

Up on the bow, I'd just climbed up to the Lower yard. We all have the baseball cap type helmets on as well as the yellow safety belts ( that you can't see here).