My imagination gets the best of me as I sail away on an eight-day high-sea's adventure aboard the classic four-masted, tall-ship Star Clipper. I am feeling a little like Captain Jack Sparrow, standing on the bridge of the rakish Star Clipper, in the face of a salty Mediterranean breeze. Encouraged by my newfound buccaneering spirit, I shout orders to the busy crew. “Ahoy me hearties – prepare to hoist the mainsail. Come on you scurvy seadogs, heave ho!” I realize the ship’s real skipper, Captain Yuriy Slastenin, is giving me a look that might have me soon walking the plank, so I jump in to help my maties. Yo Ho Ho!