January 2002

Situation at 1800:After a night at anchor climbing aloft again, the YC helped weigh the pick and we motored across Port Philip Bay conducting deck safety and sail setting. It was nice and flat even though the windwas strong. By the end of the day...

Situation at 1800: We're off on Voyage 03 of 2002. We got away on time and our Youth Crew (YC) gave friends and family the traditional YE wave to say goodbye.After two hours of motoring across the bay we anchored and now the YC...

We won again. After having the Premier on board to start the Festival of Sail with over three hundred yachts thundering past YE in over 30 knots of wind , we got going and raced One and All to Geelong. We were neck and neck...

Command Day is now complete and the YC did a great job of getting the ship from Dromana to Melbourne via Portarlington. Several tackstook place overnight thus the YC are quite tired today. However they did really well and bonded strongly as a team, thus...

A big day out. Last night the 'Bear' teamwork exercises went really well and to make things tougher we threw a tack in during the night.Today the wind dropped and those drizzly clouds went away to reveal a beautiful sunny day - at last.This...

Last night we stayed at anchor, watched a movie and ate popcorn.After happy hour this morning we sailed the ship from anchor and departed Western Port with all sail set. It was drizzling and cold but we had a great time setting all the...

We made across Bass Strait and made it to Western Port where we are now anchored. The thing is with Bass Strait it is all or nothing. We didn't exactly get nothing but we were expecting a lot more.A set of demonstrational tacks were...

Early this morning we departed Grassy Harbour in thick 'pea soup' fog and set sail to head north. By 1400 hours the fog was as thick as ever - we could just see the bowsprit. Late in the afternoon, near the top of King Island,...

Last night we left the islands (the Fleurieu Group) off the north west tip of Tassie and with a freshening breeze made landfall on King Island early this morning. The sailing thus far has been good but we need a little more wind. A little...

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