I didn’t expect a seabird, a violin, and a pair of dividers to have much in common—but this voyage has a way of connecting strange dots....

Some sea days are for resting. Others, like this one, are for wandering—through memory, imagination, and the occasional fossil bed....

Now that we’re hightailing it out of the Tristan da Cunha group two days early, I have a few extra sea days to reflect on our earlier...

Today was meant to mark the beginning of a three-day expedition to some of the most remote islands on Earth. First up: Tristan da Cunha,...