At last, we sleep in stillness at anchor for the first time since we left Thursday Island as we regather ourselves from an eventful adventure packed couple of days sailing across the Gulf of Carpentaria. We were greeted this morning with three gorgeous lemon sharks...
Ahoy, The day for us started in the early hours. Sails went up and sails went down as our three fabulous teams Red, White, and blue worked around the clock with the aim of making it through Cumberland Passage this morning. But unfortunately, the sea had...
Ahoy! This morning Red watch had the pleasure of watching a beautiful sunrise from the lower top deck. Many of blue watch didn’t make it to brekky as they chose a sleep in over Kingy’s custard tarts (big mistake). Today also marked the first time the...
Ahoy there armchair readers and night time scrollers. The Youth Crew of V09/25 have had a huge day and are currently up on the yards gasketing the square sails (tying them down). We have had to come up on engines a little, albeit with our...
Ahoy landlubbers and armchair readers!! Day Two of this incredible voyage is almost complete and wow - what a day! We spent the night at anchor in Normanby Sound with strong tidal streams and winds overnight. The stream was gusting 5kn and winds at times...
We're back for another Voyage of self discovery and adventure sailing from Thursday Island to Darwin for Voyage 09/25. This one promises to be very special with the ship starting Day One at anchor in the Torres Strait in-between Thursday Island and Horn Island. We...
And so ends another amazing voyage of self discovery and adventure - thanks for the good times Voyage 08/25. On the 13th of May we set sail with 16 landlubbers and today we arrive at our anchorage off Thursday Island with 16 salty sea dogs....
Today is our last full day on this wonderful voyage. We started at anchor in the Torres Strait, near our destination of Thursday Island (conveniently located next to Wednesday and Friday Islands). Overnight we were treated to the sight of a large shiver of beautiful...
Ahoy there Landgoers and arm chair readers! Today we awoke abruptly to the call of “all hands to tacking stations!”. It was a rude yet exhilarating way to start the day! As we yelled “two, six, heave!” on the jib, those at the front of...
“I have not stopped raving about this experience; as a result, those whom I spoke to, as well as their family and friends, have now applied for a voyage. I sailed on the first voyage (Sydney to Brisbane leg) of the ship's last circumnavigation of...
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