Christina Drewes of Hanover, Germany, climbs the rigging with the goal of reaching one of the Royal Clipper's crow's nests. Passengers are allowed on the rope ladder after being harnessed to a ...

I’d done the climb — endlessly, it seemed, up a rope ladder. Now I got to do the time — in the crow’s-nest of the Star Flyer. The best seat in the house if you wanted to drink in the ...