Welcome to day 7 of our voyage. This morning we awoke to find that we were ‘a painted ship upon a painted ocean’ with not a breath of wind and not a ripple on the ocean. Not weather that you would expect in the Southern...
Welcome to day 6 of our voyage.This morning we awoke to a completely different ocean than the one that we have experienced the past three days. Gone were the headwinds and confused swell which had made life at sea rather unpleasant for our new mariners...
Hi Everyone,Welcome to day five of our voyage. The weather did improve overnight but this morning found us close to the Mallory Seamount which due to the unique weather conditions has a very unusual swell which we found ourselves in the middle of. To be...
Hi Everyone,Welcome to day 4 of our voyage. During the morning watch the conditions deteriorated very quickly with the wind backing to the SE and gusting up to 40kts. Thankfully precautions had been taken before this hit with upper sail reduced and the jib furled...
Hi Everyone,Welcome to day 3 of our voyage. During the early hours of this morning the wind moderated and veered to the south west which enabled us to tack and commence making ground to the south east. It was always my intention to get south...
Hi Everyone,Welcome to day 2 of our voyage. It all started with a 0630 wakeup call and early morning activity and hasn’t stopped since for our World Voyagers of Passage Eight. Following breakfast we had a delivery of a large amount of beautiful South African...
Hi Everyone, Welcome to day 1 of our voyage. Well Passage Eight which is the final passage of Young Endeavours World Voyage officially started at 1600 today when our new Crew joined the ship at the V&A Waterfront here in Cape Town, South Africa. Once our new...
Hi Everyone, Welcome to day 27 of our voyage and the last night at sea for the Passage Seven World Voyagers. As forecast the wind strengthened today so we have enjoyed some more great sailing as we head for the African Coast. As the wind...
Hi Everyone, Welcome to day 26 of our voyage. It was a spectacular morning that greeted the World Voyage Crew with a clear blue sky, breaching whales, pods of dolphins and even the stray seal popping his head up to take a look at the...
Hi Everyone, Welcome to day 25 of our voyage. Well our good run with the wind finally ran out this morning when it backed to the SSE and went light and variable which meant we had to utilize the ‘iron headsails’ (main engines) and sadly...
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