Our long second day …
Evening everyone in land-lubbers land,Thanks to Dutchy we were quickly awoken at 6:30 am this morning to the sounds of music (Beyonce … I think I have heard of her) and then on deck to greet a stunning Sydney morning. A hearty breakfast and then in to some ship-keeping routines, the favourite of which was happy hour ��� yes, you guessed it ��� cleaning!We then settled into a day of sail handling, covering the basics at anchor and then in the early afternoon we proceeded to sea and continued practicing handling the sails. We did tacking stations, which involves all of us handling all the sails at once to help manoeuvre the ship if needed to avoid other ships and the like. After another great dinner it was to bed for a lot of us but mindful of the need to run the ship we will be keeping watches overnight. Watches are typically 4 hours long and it involves us steering (or helming as it is known to us mariners), keeping a lookout, navigation, ���rounds’ to check all the ship systems and of course, handling all the sails, which sometimes requires us to climb the mast and prepare the sail lines.Most people have seen-off the initial mal-de-mar effects and the somewhat gentle conditions are allowing us to achieve a lot of things while we do our watches ��� makes the long night hours pass quickly. We will continue our passage up the coast overnight and expect to be just past Port Stephens early tomorrow morning.Until tomorrow ��_YakVoyage Captain
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Conditions:
Low east/south east swell of 0.5 metre with a slight sea.Wind from the east at about 5 to 8 knots. Temperature is a pleasant 24 degrees and we still haven\'t got any rain although I expect some thunderstorm activity inshore later tonight.
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Thank you Tarvi, Kaeden and Matt for your narrative of today's events. Intentions are to remain at anchor in Hunters Bay, just off HMAS Penguin, home of the RAN Diving School, a place close to my heart, having spent many a day there under training as a young Officer! The plan is to weigh anchor and proceed to HMAS Waterhen, in Waverton, to pick up our Community Day Sailors from the Windgap Foundation and take them for a sail around the harbour for 3 hours. The Youth Crew will help us host our visitors and give them an experience of Young Endeavour. We will drop them back to Waverton and then proceed to anchor in the harbour where we will have a good view of the Bridge and the Opera House for the Youth Crew's last night onboard. Until tomorrow. Yours Aye, Captain Mike