Hello Shipmates for the final time this voyage, After a long evening of entertainment and end of voyage administration, it was a weary crew who got up for an early 0630 weighing anchor and departure from our Fitzroy Island anchorage. It was a 3.5 hour transit...
Good evening shipmates. The day started with the usual at anchor timings and activities, EMA on deck, breakfast, morning brief, which included Salty's explanation of the nautical origin of the expression 'two-six heave', with the use of the usual cast of staff crew actors and...
Day 9 lost at sea… nah just joking. We started the day at midnight with youthies in control of the ship, hooning along at 6 knots. We had a long night of hard yakka, and ran on 3 hours of sleep. I (Tiarna) may...
Hey hey hey! It’s Tiarna reporting to you on day 8! After a beautiful morning watching the sunrise and eating a BBQ breaky on deck, the staff crew have decided to take a holiday, and hand the ship over to us Youthies for the next...
Ahoy there from the Young Endeavour! Today started with the Blueys leading the way into Captains Setting and Furling, followed by the rest of the Watches. All of us passed and received a bounty of TimTams for our hard work. Next on the agenda was...
Hey Nicholas and Felicity here, writing to you from 18 23.7S 146 20.1E White watch started before daybreak with the 3am clewing of the topgallant and topsail (generally being amazing with watch leader Dan). Blue Watch also had their overnight fun by being tasked with...
Hi! Tiarna and Sophie here from Blue Watch! This is the captain’s log for day 5 of voyage 8! Our day started at 11:15pm when we were woken for our overnight watch. We very impressively managed to square the yards with a team of 5...
The youths started the fourth day doing their anchor watches. The crew woke up to the sounds of the Pokémon theme song accompanied by Rasuputin as we made our maiden laps around the boat (thanks to our illustrious sailmaster for the killer tunes). Adam gave...
We started today waking up to the beautiful open ocean and on the way to Bait Reef (SHARK BAIT OO HA HA). White watch started the day dark and early (12am) to watch the stars go by as we attempted to sail. As soon as...
Good evening Shipmates, The youth crew of V08 awoke to the startling, true blue sounds of John Williamson’s “Home Among the Gum Trees†(Emma’s pick) at a crisp 0630 for a few brisk laps around the deck. After a scrumptious English breakfast provided by the magnificent...
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