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Day 08 – V02/26, Hobart to Geelong
Hi Everyone,
Welcome to Day 8 of our voyage and Command Day. Following a restful night at anchor, we completed a number of morning activities prior to handing the Ship over to the Youth Crew at 1300. Since then, they have been busy completing tasks and planning their passage overnight from King Island to the entry to Port Phillip Bay. That’s enough from me, I will now handover to Clementine and Matthew, who kindly volunteered to help out their Captain by writing tonight’s Log.
Until tomorrow, take care.
Yours Aye,
Captain Gav.
Hey, it’s your two favourite Youthies back again, it’s Clementine and Matthew PLUS Liam!
Today began with some an early morning activity with Dion hitting some tunes over our state-of-the-art speakers notably playing ‘Over the Rainbow’ and ‘Here Comes the Sun’.
Jack continued his Macquarie Harbour prison break story and focused on a different boat that had been crossing the Bass Straight, the vessel not to different in size from the Young Endeavour named “Neva” that had shipwrecked on King Island after severe weather had started to flood the ship. Luckily for us our voyage has been nothing but a good time, with only a few hours of bad weather.
Following Jacks story, we went into happy hour, the ritual cleaning of the ship where the Youthies were split into 3 groups for the cleaning process. After that we had an amazing breakfast prepared for us by Swaggy Nathan.
The elected leaders from last night then had some time to learn their roles from the staff they would be taking over from, while the rest of the youth crew sun baked and played games and music with one another on the deck.
For lunch D’Swaggy Nathan cooked up some amazing ham and cheese toasties as well as some delicious Barramundi. As always Swaggy Nathan’s food was so good everyone went back for second helpings, or in one case seven toasties.
Despite Swaggy Nathan’s amazing cooking, staff member Mitch broke open the first of the cheese he bought from the King Island Cheese Factory yesterday, plating it up with some crackers, quince paste and an assortment of meats supplied by Swaggy Nathan.
After lunch the Youthies headed up to midship for the fourth round of Rope Races. Where once again Red Watch came out as victors, however thanks to some questionable Bonus Round point allocation White Watch picked up an extra eight points.
Then at 1300 Ex-Captain Gav handed over to Telescope of Challenge and the captain’s hat to our newly elected Captain Portia who began her Captainship by completely dismantling the watch systems for new smaller watches named Bay Watch (Solomon), Apple Watch (Mairead) and Pocket Wath (Althea).
Following the creation of the new watches we each began practicing our tacking stations together and working together with our new watches while the Captain, Sail Master and Navigator read over our mission as a Youth Crew run Young Endeavour for the next 24 hours.
Currently we are preparing to set sail across the Bass Straight on our way to Port Philip Bay, which is our final destination for tomorrow, we think?
Next Captain’s log you read, we will have successfully sailed to our destination and have commandeered the ship from the Staff, and I’m sure we will have lots of stories to tell you.
Messages home
Angus wants to say hi to Bonty his dog.
Carli says hi mum and dad and to pet Milly.
Mairead says hello to her family and that she’s looking forward to telling them everything about the voyage.
Althea says hi to their family and Julia and can’t wait to see you all (:
Matthew says hi everyone at home!
Clem says hello to the people back home, see you soon!
Liam says 😊
Olivia says hello my chawgies, hope ur doin well batflams!
Arthur says “what do I say…. My sleep schedule is both messed up and fixed at the same time… somehow, how does that even work o-well, hi mum”
Amber G. says hi to “Chubby Cheeks” Bailey and hopes he’s using his water fountain and giving his dad lots of cuddles.
And for those of you who have been patiently awaiting the fourth and final verse of the Sao Song, wait no longer.
THE SAO SONG ( Verse 4)
If you travel across the seas,
Pack a SAO or two or three,
And remember this little SAO song,
As eating SAO’s is never wrong.
Latitude/Longitude:
Conditions:
The time is 1800 and we have just weighed anchor and the Youth Crew are busy putting the Ship under sail. The current wind is SE at 15kts with a 1m Southerly swell and the temperature is 17 degrees but feels a little cooler.
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Hi Everyone,
Welcome to Voyage 05-26, which is a Sydney to Sydney voyage; I know this doesn’t sound very far, but when you have the NSW coast to explore, I’m sure we will sail a lot of miles and visit some amazing places during the next 11 days.
We have put together another talented Staff Crew for this voyage, who, I know will take great care of our new Youth Crew, ensuring that they all have a memorable experience.
The Young Endeavour Staff Crew for this voyage are as follows:
Captain – Gav
Sail Master – Sarah
Navigator – Benny
Watch Officers - Jessie & Jack
Red Watch Leader – Chris
White Watch Leader – Mitch
Blue Watch Leader – Simon
Chef – Kingy
Engineer - Dan
Doctor - Richard
The voyage commenced at 1500 today when the new Youth Crew joined Young Endeavour berthed alongside at Fleet Base East’s No 1A Berth (Just behind the famous Harry’s Café de Wheels in Woolloomooloo). Once we had everyone on board and gear stowed, we mustered our new Youth Crew with family and friends up on deck where I gave my welcome address followed by Staff Crew introductions.
On completion, we farewelled family and friends, then got straight into a safety brief and some Ice Breaker’ activities. At 1620, we departed our berth and made our way around to Middle Harbour’s Hunters Bay where we anchored at 1715.
Dinner followed, with Chef Kingy tantalizing our taste buds with a choice of Fettuccine Carbonara or Grilled Fish with vegetables and a wonderful selection of deserts. Once we had cleaned up from dinner, I completed my Captain’s Brief, followed by Sail Master Sarah’s Chat. With these chats out of the way we will spent the rest of the evening doing full value contacts and deck safety, which will be the final activities for the night.
It’s been an action-packed start to the voyage, which will continue tomorrow. So, it is time for all of us to get some well-deserved sleep. Until tomorrow, take care.
Yours aye, Captain Gav.
Hi Everyone,
Welcome to Day 10 and the final night of our Voyage. Well, what a day it’s been, from being the official Start Vessel and Flag Ship for the Festival of Sails to arriving in Corio Bay to see an impressive aerial display by the RAAF Roulettes, which was followed this evening with a wonderful fireworks display right here in Corio Bay for the Festival of Sails. I really don’t know how you could possibly fit anymore into a day, but we have. I will now hand over to Phoebe, Rhylee and Hannah to bring you up to speed with everything else that we achieved today.
Until next time, take care.
Yours Aye, Captain Gav.
Hello to everyone at home, our time together on the Young Endeavour voyage is coming to a close, so the ships three musketeers are here to write our final captains log, Phoebe, Rhylee and Hannah.
After a night full of anchor watches we started the day off bright and early at 6:20. Together as a crew we watched the sunrise over the iconic Melbourne CBD skyline accompanied by hot air balloons and team building games.
However, there was not much time to relax and smell the roses. It is a Voyage tradition to host a community sail day, but this time around the crew had a different experience lined up.
Today we had the privilege of hosting members of the Royale Geelong Yacht Club to kick start the festival of sails. The representatives observed our usual morning routine to get a feel for the endeavour experience, from our morning brief to our happy, happy, happy hour, polishing the bell until Benny could see his reflection.
Some of us Youthies climbed to the top of our mast to watch the race begin while our very own “Ambo Amber” got to set off our cannon to commence the occasion. It was incredible sight to see the bay filled with a sea of colours from each team. Each sailing ship had a vibrant front sail called a spinnaker, giving each ship its signature flair. As they continued ahead, we concluded our festival of sails activities with an array of local Melbourne pastries provided by the amazing Yacht Club representatives and race officials.
We enjoyed morning tea in the sun then unanchored and fell into our what’s now a familiar routine of setting the sails, and we were off for our next destination of Geelong. Thankfully we were blessed with a smooth ocean and blue skies. The sky was slightly too cloudless though so after a quick zooper dooper to cool down the Youthies set up the shade over midship. While everyone loves to get their tan up, the sunburn is simply not worth it. To quote D-money (Dion) himself, “sunscreen or fry, hydrate or die.” Never missing the opportunities to give us a challenge the staffies left the tarp with exactly zero instructions. It was a sign of how much the team has grown in past 10 days that we were able to work together to successfully set it up, was more complicated than it looks.
After a light lunch, (thankyou chef Nathan, love you chef Nathan, missed your cooking so much) we got started on the next item of the day. Rope races…. FINAL ROUND! Topic of the day was people and animals. Energy was up, watch rivalry was tense, cheers were loud, but the result was the same. VICTORY TO RED WATCH! It was a close final round, leaving just 1 point between first and second place, everyone gave it their absolute best. This was followed with some extra bonus rounds specially designed by Molly and Clarky. The mystery round was especially interesting, just think… dry weetbix.
This was followed up with a more peaceful, reflective activity, end of voyage chats. We gathered in our watches to discuss previous goals that had been set and make more for the future, plus mention highlights of the voyage as well as any areas of improvement. However, the excitement never stops, after laying down anchor in Geelong while we spoke, we were interrupted by a plane show (The Roulettes) right above us, super-duper cool. But that was just the start of the fun. The hot day wouldn’t have been complete without a swim to celebrate our arrival in the bay. Even better, a rope swing was set up right off the course yard. Many belly flops and somewhat successful backflips then on completion we were back on deck for a delicious pizza dinner.
In store for the rest of night we have more reflective activities, letter writing, a slideshow (made by yours truly), and potentially a sea shanty…?
Anyways that’s all from us! Nighty night, sleep tight, and we will see you tomorrow!
From Hannah, Phoebe and Rhylee
Hi Everyone,
Welcome to Day 9 of our Voyage. As the majority of today has revolved around Command Day it is only fitting that I hand over to Captain Portia and Watch Leader Althea, who have done a wonderful job of writing tonight’s Log.
Until tomorrow, take care. Yours Aye, Captain Gav.
Aloha to those back home on still ground! Today’s log is being written by Captain Portia and Watch Leader Althea.
With command day underway, we awoke this morning with a lovely poem read by the one and only apple watch. Throughout the night we made steady progress to our destination of…… Port Phillip Bay!! However, with the ever-changing winds we dropped down to 2 knots in the early hours of the morning – which meant our new Sail Master Rohan and Navigator Ro had to come up with a new plan, one of many.
With the morning under the Youthies command and a long-awaited breakfast of choc chip pancakes and can you believe it…. Fairy bread we were ready for an eventful morning of command and sailing.
From breakfast (which we at least got to start) Pocket Watch was called up by our sail master to help Apple Watch bring in the square sails so that our navigator could get our engines up and running to make up for the lack of wind. With a quick brief to Captain Gav and the ship’s navigator Jack, permission was granted to use engine power to reach our destination.
At 0930 Sail Master Rohan began our morning brief. The command team pulled out all the usual special guests with a special appearance from our naviguru Ro who told us the mysterious disappearance of The Enterprize. This was then followed by our salty sea princess Angus who delivered a poem about the three norths, magnetic, true, and grid. Our brief was wrapped up by a quote from our illustrious capitana Portia who blessed us with a new quote “The ship only sails as well as the crew communicates.”
Then all hands to sheet in the jib, followed by the happiest of happy hours with the bonus of deck scrubbing and brass polishing (2 of the 40 or so tasks the Youthies were given to, let me remind you, complete in a period of 24 hours). Immediately following our happy hour, the command team requested volunteers to Lay aloft (climb the mast) to sea furl (tie up) the square sails.
As 1300 began to approach marking the end of our command day the pace of the day picked up, as did some stress levels. We had many tasks to check off and people to check in with. We had a mandatory tack before the end of command day. Due to important timings to enter port Phillip Bay and the staffies needing to take over the navigation, our command day was extended by an hour and a half so that we were able to get tasks completed.
After a mostly successful tack we had our final lunch cooked by our wonderful chefs, Amber, Amber, and Emile. With that our command day ended with a successful arrival at our destination. We had a little half hour break before starting our fifth round of rope races! This time it was items on the ships. Our bonus round involved some painfully swift eating of zooper doopers, and some very impressive consumption speeds.
Getting situated back as crew after our very exhausting 24 hours that had lots of ups and downs, we finished off the afternoon with a debrief of our goods, not so goods and takeaways. Which we then shared with everyone to have a good discussion about the overall day and leadership plus fellowship that occurred.
The end of the day involved two watches doing a start, stop, continue activity for goals and learnings going beyond the voyage into life. Red watch had already completed the activity and instead played an emotions card came choosing emojis to represent feelings throughout the voyage. A few tears were involved and sentimental words exchanged as we begin to feel our voyage nearing its close.
Our evening is going to finish with a movie night on deck with snacks, pillows, sleeping bags and the works.
With that we bid you a goodnight, sleeping in your weird still beds.
Till the next time, Althea and Portia.
