Ahoy there Shipmates,After a reasonable night’s sleep with the Ship moving around at the mercy of a 15 Kn north-easterly breeze, still ‘on our nose’ and an easterly 1.0 m swell, Sail Master Harry woke us with one of his energetic tunes played over the...
Ahoy there Shipmates, Overnight the Ship continued to make ground to the north-east towards Jervis Bay and the wind maintained a steady 15 kn from the NE, which was the direction we needed to go in. This resulted in us having to motor most of the...
G’day Shipmates, Welcome to day 3 of our adventure in Australia’s National Sail Training Ship. We continued motoring south east overnight through Bass Strait and arrived off Deal Island just after sunrise. The winds experienced overnight prevented us from setting sails. We had the morning brief...
Hello Shipmates, Welcome to Day 2 of the voyage. In order that we could depart Port Phillip Bay through ‘the Rip’, the notoriously challenging entrance / exit of the bay, at the optimum state of the tidal flow, the Staffies weighed anchor at 0645 and commenced...
G’day shipmates,Welcome to Young Endeavour’s Voyage 02 of 2018. Our journey starts in the vibrant city of Melbourne and finishes in the beautiful harbour city of Sydney. We have a magnificent tall ship, wind for our sails and the Victorian and NSW Coasts to explore....
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Ahoy Shipmates. Well we are certainly keeping the Youth Crew busy. After a night under sail (and a 0320am tack)we arrived and the beautiful Hill Inlet and Whitehaven Beach. After runs ashore before and after lunch, we finally proceeded to anchor in the prehistoric Apostle...
Ahoy there,Welcome to day six of our voyage. Overnight and during the early hours of this morning we continued to make good speed towards the Tasmanian SW coast and by sunrise we were located 30nm to the NW of Port Davey motor sailing under fore...
Ahoy there Shipmates,We had a challenging night at sea battling against strong 35 knot southerly winds and 4 metre swells. The youth crew kept bridge watches, performing lookout duties and helping with sail handling throughout the night. Many suffered the ‘mal-de-mer’ in the uncomfortable conditions....
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