December 2015

Hi Everyone, Welcome to day 29 of our voyage and the final night of Young Endeavours 2015 World Voyage. I was getting nervous yesterday when we were only making 5kts but thankfully the wind gods came to our rescue as they have in times of...

Hi Everyone,Welcome to day 28 of our voyage. It was not a day of rest for our World Voyagers today with fridges, pantry, flour store, engine room and bilges to be cleaned plus a de-rust scrub done of the upper deck and bright work polished...

Hi Everyone, Welcome to day 27 of our voyage. The wind gods have continued to smile upon us and we are still getting strong 17-22kt SE winds, which is currently giving us a boat speed of 8kts but we expect that to change early tomorrow...

Hi Everyone,Welcome to day 26 of our voyage. Well our gale force conditions were a little tame overnight with the wind strength only peaking at 32kts which to be honest just provided us with some good sailing, so this morning we set some more sail...

Hi Everyone, Welcome to day 25 of our voyage. The conditions today have remained relatively light with passing showers which has still allowed us to continue with some activities and a little normality (whatever that may be) onboard YE. As highlighted in previous logs we...

Hi Everyone, Welcome to day 24 of our voyage. Overnight our great run of strong winds finally ended and sadly this afternoon we had to start the main engines so that we could continue to make our scheduled arrival in Fremantle. Over the past five...

Hi Everyone, Welcome to day 23 of our voyage. The squally conditions remained overnight which kept everyone on their toes and deprived most of us of some much needed sleep. Sunrise this morning provided us with some clear skies and some much needed sunshine but...

Hi Everyone, Welcome to day 22 of our voyage. Just as I started to write this log the ship heeled dramatically so I raced to the bridge to find that we had just been hit by a 45kt squall. Straight away we beared away to...

Hi Everyone, Welcome to day 21 of our voyage. Sundays are meant to be a day of rest for the Young Endeavour Crew but that certainly hasn’t been the case today. With the exception of a mysterious lull in the weather this morning which saw...

Hi Everyone, Welcome to day 20 of our voyage. Tonight will be a quick Captains Log entry from me as we are currently battling a pretty strong storm (40-50kts of wind and a 4m swell) so I am required on the bridge and haven’t got...

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