A few updates on previous posts:  The USNS Comfort, the Navy hospital ship deployed to Haiti after the earthquake is on her way home:   Navy hospital ship to begin journey home from Haiti

The Jewel of Muscat, the replica of the a 9th-century Tang Treasure ship, which we posted about in January, is now over 1500 km into her voyage to Singapore where she is expected to arrive around July. She should be making her first port of call, the Indian city of Cochin, very soon. Replica of ninth-century ship sails across the Indian Ocean.

Last September, we posted about Australian adventurer Don McIntyre and teenage circumnavigator Mike Perham to re-enact Capt William Bligh’s epic mutiny on the Bounty open boat voyage. The expedition will get underway next month, the 221st anniversary of the mutiny.   Tas sailor retraces Bligh voyage