December 2014

Hi Everyone,Welcome to day 10 of our voyage. Surprisingly overnight the wind moderated which reduced our boat speed to 5kts and kept the watches busy throughout the night setting and furling sails. Just after morning brief the wind strengthened from the NNE and this has continued...

Hi Everyone,Welcome to day 9 of our voyage. Our visit to Wellington went extremely well and I can not speak highly enough of the services provided by New Zealand Customs, Quarantine and our Logistics Agent during our brief visit to this wonderful city. This visit really...

Hi Everyone,Welcome to day 7 of our voyage. As forecast the wind continued to moderate overnight and this morning we awoke to the calmest day of the voyage with the wind north westerly at 15-20kts and the swell down to less than a metre.As per...

  Hi Everyone,  Welcome to day 6 of our voyage. Overnight the wind continued at 20-30kts from the NNE which enabled us to maintain a boat speed of 8.5kts. The only problem with this is that we have now been on a port tack since day one...

Hi Everyone,Welcome to day 5 of our voyage. Overnight we continued to make good speed and by sunrise this morning we had sailed 585nm. The weather this morning was overcast with passing showers and we were consistently getting wind gusts of 30kts and a 2.5m swell...

Hi Everyone, Welcome to day 4 of our voyage and Merry Christmas to you all!!. Again overnight in good conditions we have continued to make good speed.This morning we awoke to White Watches nautical rendition of ‘We Wish You a Merry Christmas’ followed by Kenny and...

Hi Everyone,Welcome to day 3 of our voyage. During the early hours of this morning the wind moderated to 10-15kts and with it the unpleasant swell. At morning brief I was greeted by a new crew (no longer to be known as Youth Crew due to...

Hi Everyone,Welcome to day 2 of our voyage. Overnight and during today we have continued to make good speed with the wind consistent from the NNE at 20-30kts. This has enabled us to maintain a boat speed of between 8-11kts which for a ship of...

On Monday 22 December 2014 the Governor-General, His Excellency General the Honourable Sir Peter Cosgrove AK MC (Retd) farewelled the captain and crew of the Sail Training Ship Young Endeavour as they set sail from Sydney for a twelve month circumnavigation of the world. Sir Peter...

 Hi Everyone, Welcome to the first Captains Log for World Voyage 2015. Our journey commenced in the magnificent harbour city of Sydney which really turned on a spectacular day for us this morning and providing that we get favourable winds will see us arrive in Rio...

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