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31 Jan Day Three – Strong Conditions
Hi Everyone, Welcome to day three of our voyage. The conditions remained strong overnight which increased the height of the swell to 2m resulting in...
January 2017
30 Jan Day Two – Entered Bass Strait
Hi Everyone, Welcome to day two of our voyage. The Youth Crew were awoken by a catchy Paul Simon song at 0630 this morning for...
29 Jan Day One – Departed Geelong
Hi Everyone, Welcome to Young Endeavours third voyage for 2017 and our seventeenth voyage of our 2016/17 Circumnavigation of Australia. This voyage will...
25 Jan Day 10 – Half Day Sail
Good evening everyone, Today we berthed at Cunningham Pier in Geelong to embark 30 disabled people with their carers from the Mackillop Family Services and karingal Group. We set then sail around the Bay with the Youth Crew doing an excellent job hosting our guests. It...
23 Jan Day 9 – Command Day ends
From our Youth Crew Captain - If I had a dollar for every time I wished I could control the wind I would be able to buy myself a nice yacht and settle in for an early retirement. Though I’m sure I would still find...
22 Jan Day 8 – Command Day
Ahoy there! Important announcement from your new captain; The Youthies have taken over the Young Endeavour, the staff are on 24hr probation and we have taken command. At 1830 on the 21st January we quickly instated a democracy and elected our leaders in less than...
21 Jan Day 7 Command Day Preparations
Good evening again everyone, a great day today. We awoke to great weather and set sail to do some manoeuvering practice before heading to sea for passage to Port Phillip Bay. On clearing Western Port we finished some presentations to the Youth Crew and then...
20 Jan Day 6 – great sailing
Good evening All, A truely beautiful sail overnight through some of the islands in Bass Strait with the watches doing their Bearex, a test of doing some deck work by themselves, that they have never seen before and sometimes without talking. A really good team bonding...
19 Jan Day 5 – all at sea on land
Good evening All, After a restful night at anchor we awoke to Sail Master Kyle playing some tune of which I am very unfamiliar. After a hearty breakfast we had our morning brief with a visit from a special friend called Nanna from Deal Island. Well,...
18 Jan Day 4 – Bass Strait
Good evening everyone,We cleared the northern tip of Flinders Island just after midnight and set course for Deal Island to the west. We made reasonable progress until about 1:00am when the west-south-westerly wind came through a little stronger than forecast. The sea built quickly and...
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