The Young Endeavour program is the adventure of a lifetime. Learning how to sail under the supervision of Navy officers, while having fun and making lifelong friends is the perfect adventure!After a stressful year of university, global pandemics and cancelled travel plans that had flipped my 2020...
Welcome to Day 10 and the final day of our voyage. It was a well-rested Youth Crew that mustered on deck for an Early Morning Activity at 0630 this morning. Our anchorage overnight in Cario Bay had proven to be a good one and even though...
Welcome to day 9 and the final night of our voyage. Following a great night of sailing Bass Strait the Youth Crew made their final waypoint by 0630 this morning and after handing in all sail we passed safely through the Port Phillip Bay 'Rip'...
Good Evening everyone, It’s Captain Sophia Mellink reporting in on Day 8 of our voyage, also known as Command Day. From 1000 hours today, Command of STS Young Endeavour has been handed over for a 24hr period to the Youth Crew. Today, we commence our crossing...
Welcome to day 7 of our voyage. Again it has been an action packed day with Demonstrational Tacks and Captains Setting and Furling Drills completed during our passage over from Hummock Island to King Island, in what I would class as perfect conditions. Once safely at...
Welcome to Day 6 of our voyage. After some good sailing and a bit of rough weather we finally made it to our planned anchorage at Coulomb Bay, Three Hummock Island, which is located just of the North West tip of Tasmania. It’s a beautiful...
Welcome to day five of our voyage. As forecast, the wind strengthened overnight with an unpleasant 2m south westerly swell. By morning brief we were located 15nm to the southwest of Cape Sorell, sailing downwind under all three squares and the main staysail. These conditions...
Welcome to day 4 of our voyage. Well our young crew got to step on Terra Firma this morning when they were ferried ashore to Bramble Cove and given the opportunity to climb to the summit of Mount Milner. They experienced some spectacular views of Port...
Hi Everyone, Welcome to Day 3 of our voyage. During the early hours of this morning we rounded Tasmania’s South West Cape in reasonably good sailing conditions (the Youth Crew may say rough). We managed to reach the spectacular Port Davy by late afternoon and have...
Welcome to Day 2 of our voyage. It’s been an action packed day with plenty of activities and the weather gods have smiled upon us with some favorable winds and some great sailing. That’s enough from me I will now handover to Carl and Sari...
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