The start of day 4 was an amazing wake-up call to the sound of Red watch singing a sea modified version of "chicken fried". The Whities were on first watch of the night, then handed it over to blue watch at 12pm to take on...
G'day friends and family, Day three of the eleven days done and dusted. We all had a cracker of a cold morning travelling south down the coast. Last night everyone experienced their first watch, the first watch was with red group from 8pm-12am, the next...
Ahoy there, dear readers. The morning of day 2 found us soundly anchored in the lee of the lovely Fitzroy Island and as the sun rose over the gorgeous Coral Sea, our youthful mariners were up and at 'em. After an early morning activity, breakfast...
Ahoy there shipmates, landlubbers and armchair sailors, it was a great pleasure to meet the lovely youth crew of Voyage 9 today in sunny Cairns, comprising 17 Aussie youth, from all over Queensland. They embarked at 1500 with friends and family in tow, who came...
Hello Shipmates for the final time this voyage, After a long evening of entertainment and end of voyage administration, it was a weary crew who got up for an early 0630 weighing anchor and departure from our Fitzroy Island anchorage. It was a 3.5 hour transit...
Good evening shipmates. The day started with the usual at anchor timings and activities, EMA on deck, breakfast, morning brief, which included Salty's explanation of the nautical origin of the expression 'two-six heave', with the use of the usual cast of staff crew actors and...
Day 9 lost at sea… nah just joking. We started the day at midnight with youthies in control of the ship, hooning along at 6 knots. We had a long night of hard yakka, and ran on 3 hours of sleep. I (Tiarna) may...
Hey hey hey! It’s Tiarna reporting to you on day 8! After a beautiful morning watching the sunrise and eating a BBQ breaky on deck, the staff crew have decided to take a holiday, and hand the ship over to us Youthies for the next...
Ahoy there from the Young Endeavour! Today started with the Blueys leading the way into Captains Setting and Furling, followed by the rest of the Watches. All of us passed and received a bounty of TimTams for our hard work. Next on the agenda was...
Hey Nicholas and Felicity here, writing to you from 18 23.7S 146 20.1E White watch started before daybreak with the 3am clewing of the topgallant and topsail (generally being amazing with watch leader Dan). Blue Watch also had their overnight fun by being tasked with...
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