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31 Jan Day 5 – Bay of Fires and Wineglass Bay
Ahoy from Simoné and Aiden and...
January 2025
30 Jan STS Young Endeavour – The Final Circumnavigation!
STS Young Endeavour to set sail on Australian Circumnavigation Applications are now open for 2025 youth development voyages in the Navy operated tall ship STS Young Endeavour. This exciting program will see the brigantine circumnavigate Australia for the final time, before the introduction into service of a new, state-of-the-art...
30 Jan Day 4 – Square Sailing Banks Passage
Ahoy from the best watch group aboard the Young Endeavour… BLUE WATCH READY!!! We are so happy to be reporting on day four especially after surviving the terrors of sea sickness, but thankfully our sea legs have formed and our spirits are unmatched, Blue watch ready? The...
29 Jan Day 3 – Across Bass Strait
Day Three - our first night overnight at sea! The morning routine kicked off with a custom song from the Blueies on Watch to wake everyone up. Chefo Steve cooked up a storm with his Masterchefs helping to serve and clean up breakfast and then...
28 Jan Youth Crew Claudia’s story!
“Our daughter Claudia sailed from Newcastle to Brisbane in the winter of 2023 on the STS Young Endeavour. It was very hard but she loved it. Learning so much about connecting with others, leadership, teamwork, battling through fatigue to achieve your goal and most importantly, holding...
28 Jan Day 2 – Victualled and Free
The ship was woken at 0630 with a wakey wakey song to start the day. All Youth and Ship's Crew piled onto the upper decks and limbered up with an Early Morning Activity (EMA). We then rolled through a morning brief introducing the Navigator for...
27 Jan Day 1 – Fearless Adventurers
Ahoy there readers of this fine journal. We are about to embark on another adventure on the high seas this time with our Youth Crew for Voyage 03/25: Geelong to Hobart. This journey promises to be filled with a Bass Strait crossing, expeditions around Tasmania...
25 Jan Free Open Day on STS Young Endeavour – Hobart Wooden Boat Festival – Sat 8, 10-3pm
Visit Australia’s national sail training ship STS Young Endeavour at the Hobart Wooden Boat Festival! Explore the ship, meet the Royal Australian Navy staff crew, and hear from the Young Endeavour Ambassadors about their voyage experience. Since 1988 the ship has welcomed over 14,000 young Australians on board, and...
24 Jan Day 10 – My Eyes Were Opened By the Sea
Ahoy Shipmates and armchair reader of this fine log, today marks the end of Voyage 02/25: Eden to Melbourne and what a voyage it was. From the Day One it was clear to my team and I that we had a real bunch of go-getting...
23 Jan Day 9 – Beautiful Skyline, rough Anchorage!!
Ahoy there friends and loved ones - are you head to wind because I luff you!! Some say this youth crew could fight the Kraken and come out with a friend. Others say that they can blow the ship forward with a single breath. Good evening!...