August 2011

Hi everyone,A beautiful morning as we sailed into Mooloolaba. Each of the watches did setting and furling of the sails under my watchful eye to prove they have the necessary capability to perform without supervision on Command Day. Well done to Zoe and her watch...

Hi everyone,A bumpy night while trying to make ground to the north. A couple of times during the night the wind shifted but it always conspired against us. Nonetheless, perserverence paid dividends and by lunch time we were past Cape Byron with weather moderating. The...

Good evening everyone, We sailed from Coffs Harbour at 7:30 am and motor sailed north along the NSW coast in a building northerly wind. After our morning brief and \'happy hour\' I had opportunity to talk with the Youth Crew about sails and some of the...

Good evening everyone,A wonderful overnight motor sail with the wind building from the south west. During the middle watch (midnight to 4:00 am) the guys needed to do some manouevring around some rain squals but other than that a very pleasant passage north along the...

Evening Everyone,A wonderful farewell from the wharf at Newcastle this afternoon. As promised we did some manouevering in the harbour before moving to another berth further upstream at the Forgacs Shipyard so we could have benign sea conditions for our first big task. Benign conditions...

Hi Everyone,Overnight with the assistance of a moderate north easterly the ship made good progress towards the entry to Port Phillip Bay, with our entry programmed for slack water. This entry was achieved at 0600 when Young Endeavour passed safely through the ‘Rip’ and entered...

Ahoy there everyone,Welcome to day five of our voyage, after keeping anchor watches overnight our day commenced at 0630 with a wakey wakey song from Sail Master Tug to muster everyone onto the upper decks for an early morning activity to rouse all for breakfast...

Ahoy there everyone, Welcome to Young Endeavour’s fifteenth voyage for 2011. Our journey commences in Brisbane and concludes in Gladstone. We have a magnificent tall ship, forecast wind for our sails and the Pacific Ocean to explore. The potential is limitless and sense of adventure is...

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