V11/19 Tag

After a long night of anchor watches, the youthies woke to the pleasant aroma of Marcus and the master-chef assistants cooking up a beast of a BBQ breaky. Morning brief (which was not so brief) was as entertaining as ever. Salty kept us all amused...

Ahoy Thar! Youthies Taylor and Liam reporting: First up, big birthday wishes to staffie extraordinaire and red watch leader KARLY. Day 3 brought many joys to our youthies and staff crew...

Ahoy there, dear readers. The morning of day 2 found us soundly anchored in the lovely and sheltered Quoin anchorage inside Port Curtis. T’was a super busy day, for our youthful mariners, with a few more briefings, cleaning stations and Blue watch completing their first...

Ahoy there fellow sailors, land lubbers and followers, it was a great pleasure to meet the lovely youth crew of Voyage 11 today in Gladstone, comprising 27 Aussie youth, from all states bar the NT. They embarked at 1500 with friends and family in tow,...

Well, ladies and gents, boys and girls, Today is the final day of V11/19 and shiver me timbers (ye olde nautical saying), what a voyage it’s been. We’ve had some great weather, amazing sailing (for a couple of hours! lol) and some of the best anchorages...

Ahoy dear readers, tied up alongside Bulimba this evening as I write this, the penultimate log of our fantastic voyage from Gladstone and I must say, it has been a wonderful adventure. Ships staff have completed all post voyage administration, including voyage debrief and a...

With great power comes great responsibility, as we discovered today. The early morning started off with decreasing wind conditions and a correction of course to make up for some broken hardware...

Today is the day we’ve all been waiting for. With a skip in our strides and heads held high, today is time for our crew of 27 young Aussies to take STS Young Endeavour for our own. We anchored in the most beautiful Double...

Another lovely sunrise at sea, ladies and gents, boys and girls. Great to have you with us again. Yes, sunrise at sea! It doesn’t get any better in my opinion. Pity I missed it, slept in! Oh well. The morning watch definately didn’t miss it...

Dear readers, t’was an epic day, which started with a blow from the south, late last night… I felt the ship heel over around midnight, due to the lovely southerly winds, we were expecting, although coming from the direction of our destination was obviously not ideal…...

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