AT ANCHOR IN COFFS HARBOUR
After a good forenoon yesterday of sailing, the wind abaited in the afternoon, requiring the use of the Iron Topsails! With both engines at top of the green and a full press of fore and aft sails we spent a mild night cruising down the northern NSW coast. After morning brief Young Endeavour anchored in Coffs Harbour just before 1000. With happy hour complete the rest of the forenoon was filled up with a ‘rules of the road’ lecture detailing how to safely drive your ship at sea and not hit fellow mariners.Lunch was once again the spectacular festival of cuisine that has become the norm from our relatively new cheffo Simon. After lunch it was time for Rope Races round 2 and a short boat ride ashore to play some sport on the beach. This was also the perfect opportunity for those poor souls suffering from sea sickness to use the perfect cure – sit under a tree!Until tomorrow…Ian HibbardLEUT, RANVoyage Captain
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Wind light and variable. Sea flat. Sky partly cloudy.
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Thank you Tarvi, Kaeden and Matt for your narrative of today's events. Intentions are to remain at anchor in Hunters Bay, just off HMAS Penguin, home of the RAN Diving School, a place close to my heart, having spent many a day there under training as a young Officer! The plan is to weigh anchor and proceed to HMAS Waterhen, in Waverton, to pick up our Community Day Sailors from the Windgap Foundation and take them for a sail around the harbour for 3 hours. The Youth Crew will help us host our visitors and give them an experience of Young Endeavour. We will drop them back to Waverton and then proceed to anchor in the harbour where we will have a good view of the Bridge and the Opera House for the Youth Crew's last night onboard. Until tomorrow. Yours Aye, Captain Mike