Arrr! Ahoy there! Welcome to Day 9, Part 2 of the Command Day log! We started off with “Frozen Watch” taking the Guts Watch (0001 – 0400). The weather was nothing like we’ve ever seen before. Gusting winds of over 25 knots, swells big enough...
Today marked the beginning of the day that much of our youth crew was looking forward to, Command Day! The day started early with the overnight anchor watches before the Youth Crew were shaken from their slumber with “Into The Unknown” playing over the pipe...
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Ahoy dear readers, day 7 found the ship sailing east through Investigator Strait under fore and aft sails, whilst youth crew conducted challenging teamwork exercises throughout the night. At 0700 myself and Hoppy the Engineer took each watch through a sail handling validation evolution to...
A new day, a new dawn. The night began with anchor watches, nice and easy playing games like uno and monopoly deal. Zeze may have won a good deal of games during that time. Moving on the dawn continued to rise without a hitch, leading...
Day 5!! Starting off with a hectic night of watches on deck, heaving and furling the sails, we made it through rough waves which shook the bunks. We woke to a great morning and a gorgeous sunrise with the dulcet tones of a Thomas the...
Day 4!! A few of us woke up well rested, others not so much. All rising to the sound of the Weather Girls and Raining Men over the loud speakers. Our first colours ceremony then commenced run by White Watch (the best watch, obviously), the ANF,...
Greetings readers! It’s Day 3 of our voyage and we cannot believe how fast it's going. We started the morning off with White Watch taking over the helm at 0001, we furled in the forestaysail, mainsail and jib and we also set the topgallant and topsail...
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