Final Day at sea prior to Command Day
Sail Master Evan woke everyone at 0700 to a beautiful sunny morning, the first hot, dry day of the voyage. There was a perceptible hike in everyone’s morale at the thought of not needing wet weather gear all day!After Morning Brief and “Happy Hour” I gave part 2 of my Sail Theory brief to the watches individually.After lunch Engineer Brett held the next edition of “Ropies”, which was followed by my Captain’s Setting & Furling. That is a sail handling competency assessment conducted by Brett and I of the watches individually to ensure they are at the required standard to proceed to Command Day. All of the 3 watches met the required standard.Next I issued the Youth Crew with my “Captain’s Challenge” – to set all of the sails, on their own, with staff safety oversight only, in under 45 mins. This was also successfully achieved.The final activity of the day, before we swung into night watches, was the Command Day elections. These were completed remarkably quickly. Congratulations to those Youthies who were elected into leadership positions for Command Day and I am confident they will do well.It is intended to remain at sea overnight, anchoring off Merimbula early tomorrow morning.Until tomorrow.Yours, Aye Captain Mike
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Conditions:
Wind: North easterly at 15 Kn, Weather: mostly fine, Swell: from NE at 1.5 m, Temp: 26 deg. C
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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