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Chris walks the Lunenburg, Nova Scotia waterfront and encounters three tall ships: the Bluenose 2 (a 1963 replica of the schooner that won the Fisherman's Cup racing on the Newfoundland Bank in 35-knot conditions), the square-rigger Picton Castle (based in Lunenburg for roughly 20 years, completing approximately seven round-the-world voyages under Dan Moreland), and Osprey.0:46 He covers Lunenburg's history as a cod-fishing economic center for 150 years, the collapse of small-boat fishing into corporate trawler operations, the Fisherman's Memorial listing hundreds of lost mariners, and the town's UNESCO World Heritage status as the first settlement with a gridded street plan.1:35 Chris reflects on working aloft on tall ships — specifically the vessel Jifeng at Double Haven in Hong Kong — and argues that sailing a square-rigger means working inside the engine itself.17:26 He also notes a sliding track on Picton Castle's deck as a potential spinnaker-handling solution for Osprey.19:41 The segment closes with a passage-planning problem: a replacement propeller ordered via DHL has not arrived after ten days, so Chris plans to depart Lunenburg under sail alone, heading approximately 400 miles to Newport, Rhode Island, either around Cape Cod or through the canal.21:48

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