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22 Feb A Ship Takes a Deserved Break
Early this morning we went for another swim. That's 6 swims this Voyage and must be a new record. The YC packed and wrote farewell letters. We weighed anchor at 9:30 and the YC laid aloft to man the yards. As...
February 2001
21 Feb A Prime Ministerial Day!
Our day with the Prime Minister and distinguished guests was excellent. Thanks to the tremendous efforts of the Youth and Staff Crew we made our ship very presentable and showed them what a great team we are. The PM arrived at 0930 and met...
20 Feb Longest Day of My Life
The real story of what happened during Command Day reads like this...
19 Feb Falling into Crying Heaps
I handed Command to Karl Harisson and YC 04/01 (a fine bunch) and we got going straight underway, (which would explain why we haven't had Happy Hour yet). After some fluky winds that threatened to make us go surfing and an ebbing tide, which helped...
18 Feb Cooking Up a Storm
Last night we conducted the 'Bear' teamwork exercise, which went really well and brought out some good learning points. We continued sailing down to Sydney and then turned towards Broken Bay as we conducted setting and furling drills and the Youth Crew proved to themselves...
17 Feb A Fairly Active Morning!
Today we cleaned, ate, polished, climbed, sang, set sails, furled sails, brailed sails, laughed, clewed sails, slept, ran, swam, got stung, swung on a swing, screamed, dived, sailed, pinched, spewed, had a birthday, drawed, navigated, cried, sea furled, saved a lifering overboard, knotted, sun baked,...
16 Feb Dolphin Escort
After a good nights' sleep we were up early this morning for some exercises. After a great breakfast cooked by our lovely chef, Karen, and served by her trusty helpers, we got the day underway. I gave a Sailing Theory lecture that was understood very...
15 Feb Holding the Fort
Our Youth Crew are doing really well so far and are getting into the swing of things. The sailing has been great and we've managed to set all but one sail. Early this morning a moderate wind swept over us making our entry into...
14 Feb Leapfrogging the Ship
Last night was pretty bumpy but we had some good sailing. At midnight we wore ship and headed back towards Australia and made landfall at 7am. We saw lots of shearwaters (mutton-birds) who were intent on leapfrogging the ship to sit and watch us go...
13 Feb Stoically Holding On
The overnight climbing and knot tying went well. The Youth Crew were up again at 0630 hrs after keeping a 4 hour watch on deck and today, as always, the learning curve has been very steep. But they have stuck to the task well and...
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