Visit Australia’s national sail training ship STS Young Endeavour in Brisbane, Queensland. Explore the ship, meet the Royal Australian Navy staff crew, and hear from the Young Endeavour Ambassadors about their voyage experience. 2023 marks the 35 year anniversary of STS Young Endeavour. Since 1988 the ship has...
Ahoy there Shipmates for the final time this voyage, Sailmaster Thomo woke the crew this morning at 0630 singing his lovely rendition of 'To Leave Her'. It was then up on deck for the final early morning activity followed by another of Cylvie's delicious breakfasts. Bags...
Ahoy there Shipmates, As I was resting in my rack after a long days work onboard STS Young Endeavour my mind wandered what lay in stall for the future. Abruptly I was awoken from my slumber to the sound of Tommo’s voice over the pipe calling...
Ahoy there Shipmates, As the sun rose and the lion king song played over the speaker we started our day at 6 to a walk around the deck. A continental breakfast was slammed in 20mins in order to swim before we took over the ship. After...
Oh Captain, My Captain The first goal of the day is what we call Captain Setting and Furling. This drill entails the youth taking control and showing to the Captain how much each of the watches have learnt and how much information they have retained throughout...
Ahoy there Shipmates! [On ya Blueys!] We started the day of strong at 4:00 for the guts watch before chowing down on eggs, bacon and hashbrowns for brekkie and an early morning tack. For our 9:00 brief we learned about ‘turning a blind eye’ and the epic...
Ahoy there shipmates, This morning we got to have a sleep in as we had the guts watch (from 12am-4am). We missed out on a great breakfast of French toast but it’s okay because lunch was salmon and lamb chops which was superb! We rushed to...
This morning the Youthies awoke to a rock’n’roll classic, ACDC’s You shook me all night long. Fuelled by a delicious array of fruits and mueslis prepared by Cylvie, we were ready to face the day. Last night was another rather rough night, motoring with the wind...
Ahoy there! After a much better night's sleep with anchor watches only 1hr 15 min shifts. We were woken up to a brisk walk around the ship to music played by Thomo. Morning activity before breakfast was 'Evolution' where we played paper-scissors-rock to win and evolve...
Good evening everyone, After a long night of broken sleep, the youthies have completed their first overnight watch. We rotated each watch team after 4 hours of steering, taking rounds and keeping lookout. We also got to experience setting up sails and learning the calls. Red...
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