Ahoy dear readers, the morning of day 10 found the ship anchored in the lovely bay between Little Manly Cove and the Quarantine Station, in the North Harbour. At 0730 the ship weighed anchor and we proceeded to HMAS Waterhen, while Youth Crew gave the ship...
Ahoy there friends and family from the STS Young Endeavour! Day nine started with sea watches through the night on our journey to Sydney Harbour, which went smoothly despite the disappointing lack of wind. We had early morning wakeup at 0700 to the tune of "Barbie...
After a night of hour long anchor watches, the youthies were woken up by the crackling speakers playing 'Go Your Own Way' and our way was up to the deck. Once we had all dragged ourselves out of bed we were prepared for the day...
Ahoy dear readers! Day 7 of the voyage found the ship anchored securely in Broken Bay, in the vicinity of Hungry Beach, part of the Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park. Hands were called at 0630 for an early morning activity on deck followed by breakfast and...
The day started off with everyone conducting overnight watches. Despite this being a routine task, we were met with a surprise leadership challenge. Our challenge was to find, set and furl the storm jib (which we had never seen or heard of before) without any...
All watches had a great night of sea watches, after leaving anchor yesterday. We were kept busy with climbing, sail handling, steering the ship and keeping a good lookout. The day started with the youthies having their morning brief with the Sailmaster swiftly followed by...
Last night the youthies participated in ANCHOR watches throughout the evening/night of Day 3 and the morning of Day 4, in which they were organised into groups of 3 or 4, this time from different watch colours. In these anchor watches the youthies would check the...
Last night the youthies participated in their first night watches. It was organised into watch groups, which rotated in four-hour intervals. It became clear that sea legs were yet to form, as most of us spent a lot of the watch leaning over the side of the...
Ahoy dear readers, the ship remained alongside in Newcastle overnight and before we knew it, the Sailmaster piped wakey wakey at 0630 and encouraged everyone to meet at midships for an energising and fun, early morning activity. Then, having had breakfast, morning brief took place...
Ahoy there shipmates, landlubbers and armchair sailors, Youth Crew of Voyage 07A/24 embarked today at 1500 alongside Newcastle, NSW, with a very large group of family and friends, who came to inspect the ship and the staff crew, and to farewell their loved ones for...
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