After disembarking our half day sail guests yesterday, we motored around to anchor in Farm Cove, where the Opera House and the Harbour Bridge provides a magnificent backdrop to the final hours of our voyage. The afternoon was spent cleaning the ship and putting neat...
Yesterday afternoon, after we had anchored, it was all ashore for a couple of hours of interwatch sport. This was excellent fun and helped blow away some tensions of the previous 24 hours. On completion of the sports afternoon I facilitated a debrief of...
We left our intrepid Youth Crew yesterday having successfully extricated themselves from their first challenge, namely recovering the ship from all aback. Soon they were sailing the shipnicely before the light south-west breeze and making good time towards Sydney, their first destination. Their lack of...
It was a real drifter on Jervis Bay yesterday but we still managed to achieve all that we needed to. The Sailing Master completed a communication game with the youth crew which is aimed at providing the youth crew with some insight into different...
Noon, SundayYesterday afternoon we continued to motor up the coast staying in close looking for an afternoon sea breeze, as we made our way towards Jervis Bay. After lunch with no wind still to speak of we stopped the ship and all had a refreshing...
Noon - SaturdayOur visit to Gabo Island worked out very well yesterday. We got everyone ashore and had a good walk up to the lighthouse and back and some enjoyed a bit of touch football on the beach. Back on board at 1600...
Conditions continued with light winds yesterday afternoon and more motoring so we had some fun with deck games to pass the time. Last night at last some wind piped up but alas from the wrong direction. None the less with 25 knots across the deck...
Since leaving Port Phillip the weather has been dominated by a high pressure system which means continuing light winds and has us waiting patiently for a front to force its way through from the west. In the meantime we've done lots of motoring, though...
Yesterday we completed sail setting and furling and a couple of tacks on schedule before we departed Port Phillip Heads late in the evening. Conditions were calm so we had to motor initially but during the night a north-east breeze freshened sufficiently to allow us...
Cap'n Bob here for Voyage 8 of 2000, Melbourne to Sydney. We have ideal conditions for the start of training, nice and calm allowing everyone to settle into their new home for the next ten days and start to learn the ropes. Captain Safety...
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