The 15-knot moderate breeze from the north couldn’t have been better for our first day aboard the Sea Cloud, and we were soon dizzy from gazing up at the rigging of this true, hand-sailed four-mast barque. The wind increased through the afternoon and we averaged over six knots, sailing through the passage between the islands of Ios and Sikinos before we anchored south of Santorini for a refreshing swim before dinner.