At Anchor in Jervis Bay

Ahoy Shipmates, Sunrise this morning found YOUNG ENDEAVOUR 10nm to the north east of Jervis Bay motor sailing due to the lack of wind. At 0800 we entered Jervis bay and proceeded straight to our planned anchorage at Montagu Roads coming to anchor at 0845. Following morning brief and a very thorough set of cleaning stations (happy hour) the rope swing was rigged and everyone enjoyed a swim in the cool but crystal clear waters of Jervis Bay. These waters must have mystical healing powers because it was a Youth Crew completely cured of seasickness that exited the water and made their way to lunch were they devoured everything that the Chef put in front of them. After lunch it was straight into another set of rope races followed by an enthralling Rule of the Road lecture given by the Boats Officer. At 1400 everyone was ferried ashore to Long Beach were they spent the rest of the afternoon playing beach sports and enjoying a good leg stretch. This evening we enjoyed the first of our ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½teak deck BBQ’sï¿½ï¿½ for this voyage which was followed by a very entertaining session of three way talks. As this is our first night at anchor since departing Sydney all watches have been reduced to anchor watches for the night allowing both YC and staff the opportunity to get a good nights sleep, ensuring that everyone was well rested for the days ahead. Please find attached Captains Log entries from the Youth Crew.Until tomorrow, take careYours AyeCaptain Gav Youth Crew Entry Hiya Family and Friends that are keeping up to date with our progress, we are currently on day 4ï¿½ï¿½_. Today has definitely been the highlight so far with the 90% of people with sea sickness (Yay.. I didn’t get sick!!) not slumped over the sides anymore. We are currently at anchor at Jarvis Bay and we are blessed with fantastic weather making it here on our 4am-8am watch this morning (So I was starting the day for once with you dad ïŠ). We have just got back from an arvo on the beach playin volleyball and swimming. I am doing surprisingly well but missing everyone lots.. Oh and boys I hope you guys didn’t go to Wednesday pub night without me ïŒ!! Dad I am eating well with the chef on board cooking wicked food.. its fantastic.. I best be off we are having a BBQ on deck tonight so I will try and post again in a few days ï¿½ï¿½_ I am very tired and exhausted but I am really enjoying myself but been thinking of everyone all the time.Speak to you soon hopefully (no phone ïŒ).. love you all and missing you lots.. give the boys a hug and kiss for meï¿½ï¿½_.Love bunches Carolyn xoxox Hey to the nations capital. It has been totally awesome so far even though most of us were slumped over the side of the ship puking our guts for the first few days. Kelsey was lucky enough to christen the voyage V15/08 by being the first to puke. (Those bracelets DID NOT work!!! I want my money back) and I have been the sickest onboard so far. Right now we are all emersed in a highly interactive game on deck involving cards and crazy animal noises. The dominating Canberrans have been lucky enough to meet lots of new and interesting people, and therefore making lots of new friends. So don’t expect us home on the weekends. ïŠ Funnily enough those friendships become very close when doing the 12:00am ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ 4:00am watchï¿½ï¿½_. In the freezing cold, choppy weather. Today has been the best day, by far. No puking, but rather lazying on the deck and a private beach in Jervis Bay! Which is utterly beautiful. We are lucky enough to have Cap’n Gav cook us a BBQ dinner tonightï¿½ï¿½_ should be ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½interestingï¿½ï¿½ lol, love you Gav! First night aboard we were lucky enough to climb to the topgallant yard (look that one up!) at midnight (yes mum I told you that we would be climbing on the first night!!!) and enjoyed the lovely lightning in Sydney Harbour, including the bridge. Red watch rules, we love you FRED! No Kelsey, White Watch totally rules, ha ha no one loves blue watch! Having a FANTASTIC, AWESOME, BREATHTAKING experience, and really looking forward to this next week! Excited about taking command in a few days and really seeing what this ship, ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½Young Endeavourï¿½ï¿½ is made of!! ïŠ Don’t worry, we didn’t forget about you back in Canberraï¿½ï¿½_ just kept you for last because your so important. Can’t wait to see you and tell you all our stories. Looking forward to getting to Eden so that we can say that we sailed a tall ship from Sydney to Eden with little, to no experience before hand. Missing you and love you all heaps.Signing out, until next time Kelsey and Hannah (Miley) XoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxP.S say hi to everyone for usHello Newcastle,So far the trip has been unreal. Would you believe that I actually am one of the few who haven’t been seasick!!!! Shocking I know. I have how ever got bruises up my shins and on my arm as being unco on a ship in rough seas leads to lots of falls and crashing into walls.I have climbed the mast and was terrified in doing so but it was unreal. I will have to explain in more detail when I get home.We are having a cruisey because up until now it has been lots of hard work and very little sleep. We’re are about to have a BBQ on the deck.You know I’m not good at the writing messages so I will leave it hear but I love and miss you all millions. Cant wait to talk to everyone again, didn’t realise how much I depended on talking to all of you when ever I wanted or needed.With Truck loads of love,Rharni xxooGday family,It’s been a cracker so far. Everything I was after in the first couple of days. Big seas, and wild weather. I’m stoked! Steep learning curve but the penny is really startin to drop. Unbelievable experience and already well worth my hard earned. I’ve learnt to tack and wear the ship, navigate, climbed the mast to the topgallant, and I haven’t felt a whisker of seasickness. Mum I’m pretty sure I told you we’d be in Eden on Wednesday but turns out its actually Thursday. I dunno how I buggered that one up. Hope it doesn’t throw a spanner in the works.Finally I wish a very happy engagement to Nomes and Heath for Sat. Wish I could be there. Hope you have as much fun as I am having here. See ya in a week!Pete Hey folks! Everything is great here. I have more bruises than I can count, but they have all been well earned: climbing, falling, pulling, winchingï¿½ï¿½_ life on the sea is the life for me. The food is amazing and it has stayed in my guts which is a miracle. Special shout out to Scotto (GO Medium!), Ad and Cam (hope the trip is going well) and Steve (this trip is the BEST ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ you get full brownie points for pushing me to apply). X Nina

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35Â° 1' South / 150Â° 46' East

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Currently at anchor in Jervis Bay and experiencing very light NE winds.

AUTHOR: Commanding Officer STS Young Endeavour

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Good morning Shipmates, Sailmaster Sara's final Wakey Wakey song was pumped through the Ship’s speakers to jar the crew of YE from their deep slumber after a particularly tiring day of the Community Day Sail. Activities included end-of-voyage chats for the watches, harbour furling the square sails, eating as much home made pizza, cooked by master chef Ash, as we possibly could and knocking over final command day tasks including the Slide Show. It was up on deck for a quick head count to make sure everyone was out of their ‘racks’ and ready for their final day onboard. Breakfast was followed by the morning brief on the plan for the day and then the Staff Crew weighed anchor and got us underway while the Youth Crew laid aloft for a quick harbour cruise. Navigator Seb piloted the Ship from our Athol Bay anchorage, past Fort Dennison under the Harbour Bridge, where we fired the Ship’s saluting cannon, and then into Balls Head Bay to our berth. We berthed at HMAS Waterhen at 1000 to the warm welcome of friends and family of the Youthies, waiting on the wharf for us. Once we had secured the ship alongside we invited our guests onboard, allowed them a walk around the ship to see where the Youthies had lived and worked for the last eleven days, and then we gathered everyone at midships. Sail Master Sara spoke about our adventures during the voyage and then I presented the Voyage Completion certificates to the youth crew and the Young Endeavour Award to Liv for her outstanding hard work on in undertaking the voyage and her dedication to helping her fellow youth crew members to achieve their voyage goals. We then farewelled the Youth Crew of V04/24 after a fantastic challenging and enjoyable voyage. Thank you for following our adventures and hope you enjoyed hearing about them. Yours, aye, Captain Mike

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Day 10 – Community Day Sail Sydney Harbour

Good evening shipmates, After a well-earned quality night’s sleep at anchor in Hunters Bay, Sail Master Sara woke us with another of her soothing tunes to get us on deck for a quick early morning activity. After breakfast the staff crew weighed anchor and conducted the transit to HMAS Waterhen, at Waverton. We berthed there at 0900 and prepared to embark our guests for the Community Day Sail. At 1015 we cast off our berthing lines and departed with our 34 guests and commenced our 3 hour tour of the harbour. Our Community Day Sailors were a group 30 members and staff from the Windgap Foundation. We also embarked some defence personnel as well. We again passed under the Harbour Bridge and then proceeded into Rose Bay where we set some sails and commenced sailing back towards Waterhen. Whilst on the harbour our fantastic youth crew helped us host our Windgap special guests. They encouraged our guests to participate in setting the staysails and a square sail by helping to pull on the sheets and clewlines. The youth crew also helped Chef Ash to prepare and deliver the food to our guests on deck. At 1300, after 3 fun-packed hours on the harbour, we berthed back at the southern wharf at HMAS Waterhen. Once we had farewelled our guests it was time to commence our end-of-voyage activities and preparations. The staff crew managed to organise a visit to the RAN Ship MATV Sycamore, which is crewed by a mixture of civilians and Navy staff, is a multi-role aviation training vessel. The youth crew embarked with their watch leaders and were given a 45 minute tour of the ship by some of the Navy crew. On completion they returned onboard and Young Endeavour sailed and proceeded to our anchorage in Athol Bay, which affords a great view of the Harbour Bridge and the Opera House. During the transit to the anchorage the Youthies undertook their end-of-voyage chats, facilitated by their watch leaders, to examine if they had achieved everything in their full-value contracts they had completed at the start of the voyage. After the traditional last voyage dinner of home made pizzas, Sara gave the Youthies the Harbour Furl brief, who then donned their climbing harnesses and laid aloft to undertake the ‘Harbour Furl’ of the square sails to make them look immaculate for our ceremonial arrival at the end of the voyage tomorrow. Once that was completed, the youth crew then finished off their final outstanding Command Day tasks, which were planned for the last night onboard. These included the Voyage Slide Show compiled of photos taken by everyone. This was excellent and provided a touching reminder of what we had experienced and the beautiful coastlines and islands that we had visited during the voyage. The final activity of the day was the end-of-voyage administration, which for the youth crew included a feedback questionnaire asking for feedback on their experience of the voyage, as well as a letter for each crew member to write to themselves on their experiences during the voyage, which the Young Endeavour Youth Scheme will post to the youth crew in 6 months time. The aim of this is to help reinforce what the youth crew have learned about leadership, teamwork and about themselves from the experience of the voyage. Once these were completed the crew were encouraged to go to bed. The Ship will remain in Athol Bay overnight and weigh anchor and sail in the morning at 0900 and undertake the transit to HMAS Waterhen, where family and friends will meet the Ship on arrival at 1000. Until you hear from me tomorrow for the final instalment of Voyage 04/24. Yours aye, Captain Mike

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Day 9 – Command Day Part 2

Ahoy from Sydney! For today’s Captain’s Log: the Youthies took over and completed several tasks including singing the national anthem in three different tunes as well as giving salty sea facts to start the day in a nautical way. We finally made it! After a long and weary effort of the command team and watches, we were able to fully sail into Sydney Harbour. At approximately 11:50 we anchored in Hunters Bay. To celebrate we had a groovtastic disco in the 12 berth due to excessive rainfall but the youthies made it work, having a blast dancing to Billie Jean. Afterwards, the youthies as well as the staff reflected on our efforts during command day, following the handover of the ship to the Staffies, where we highlighted what we did well, what we could improve on and what lessons we can take back to our normal lives, of which there are many. Continuing on from the previous log, with command day still ongoing. We encountered multiple problems. One of which being that mother nature didn’t bless us and gave us little to no wind to work with. However with the efforts of the Youthies we were able to successfully gather up to 8 knots of speed after a 4am tack in which the youthies persevered despite a lack of sleep enabling us to make our way into Sydney. Before our reflection the Youthies finished their day strong with a ‘Happy Hour’ cleaning session and one final dance. The afternoon was spent relaxing and recharging from ‘Command Day’, going aloft and furling the square sails. For dinner, Ash prepared a barbecue with steak, sausages, chicken kebabs with buns and an assortment of salads with a delicious chocolate cake for dessert. The Youthies are looking forward to the Community Day Sail tomorrow which will be a great opportunity to give back to Australia and put our sailing knowledge to the test. We have learned many lessons during ‘Command Day’, we pushed ourselves out of our comfort zone and together a crew of 24 youth were able to sail a tall ship into the harbour of Sydney. Today’s score: 9 camels and a donkey (Amazing) Until next time Rock on! Tarvi, Kaeden and Matt. P.S. Happy Birthday for tomorrow little bro, love Lil xx P.S.S. Kai, sorry I didn’t do the thing for Meg. I just remembered and will do it when back.

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