October 2015

Hi Everyone,Welcome to day 17 of our voyage. Overnight we had mixed conditions with wind one minute and nothing the next, which kept our World Voyagers very busy with plenty of sails to set, furl then set again. With these conditions came an unpleasant NNW...

Hi Everyone,Welcome to day 7 of our voyage. The pleasing news is that we departed Cadiz on schedule this morning and now that the ‘weather gods’ have smiled upon us we are currently transiting through the Straits of Gibraltar.The World Voyage Crew have been busy...

Hi Everyone,Welcome to day 52 of our voyage. The Command Period continues with the Crew (Now Known as Cape Horner’s) doing a fantastic job. Today they took on the job of putting the Fisherman Staysail back up which is no small task. This is a...

Hi Everyone,                  Welcome to day 21 of our voyage. Despite the normal things that I talk about in the log like distance travelled, weather, sail plans and food a number of other things do occur onboard. So tonight when we asked for a volunteer to write the log...

Hi Everyone,Welcome to day 40 of our voyage. Apologies for not adding my entry to last nights Log but I was bed ridden with the dreaded ‘Mindelo Belly’ and I can honestly say that it is something that you would not wish upon your worst...

Boa tarde!Today we departed from Mindelo in Cape Verde and are now steering SW on a direct course for Rio.  Unfortunately the Young Endeavour diet has come back in full force for a large proportion of the crew and staffies (a side effect from consuming...

Hi Everyone,Welcome to day 34 of our voyage. Sadly today we had to farewell our feathered friend ‘Pepito’ who passed away peacefully this morning. As you will read in tonight’s Log in which you are permitted to laugh and cry as you read it has...

Hi Everyone,Welcome to day 33 of our voyage. Another warm day here in the Atlantic with little wind but plenty of activities to keep us busy.The big news for today is that our much loved Sail Master ‘Dougie’ celebrated his 40th Birthday which we think...

Hi Everyone,Welcome to day 32 of our voyage. Another great day on the Atlantic Ocean but we are now experiencing light and variable conditions which is meaning not a lot of sailing and a bit more work for the main engines.Given the lack of wind...

Hi Everyone,Welcome to day 31 of our voyage. Following yesterdays ‘Sunday Routine’ it was business as usual today but just for something different we through in the setting and handing in of storm sails. Young Endeavour only has two storm sails which are the storm...

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