Day 7 – Adventure Bay

Ahoy there dear readers, day 7 found the ship motorsailing eastwards along the southern Tasmanian coast, with following winds and seas.
Watches consolidated their training overnight and at 0700 commenced sail handling validation with Hoppy the Engineer and yours truly. We put each watch through their paces to ensure a baseline of safety and competence. You’ll be pleased to hear that all watches passed the test and will go into Command Day tomorrow with confidence in their abilities. Yes, that’s right, Command Day will begin tomorrow morning… but more about that later.
Morning brief was conducted at 1000 followed by cleaning stations. All sail was then handed-in and the ship came to anchor in the vicinity of the township of Adventure Bay, at the southern end of Adventure Bay, Bruny Island. As usual the daily siesta followed our delicious lunch, then rope races kicked everyone into gear at 1300.
After rope races, your humble narrator imparted some more sail theory wisdom followed by a talk on tacking the ship, filling in the last holes of knowledge and setting up our young sea-dogs for a successful Command Day. With that done, we opened up the pool for a swing and splash, as the rope swing was swung and the good old lily pad was launched for some refreshing fun in the sun.
Once the seaboat was recovered and youthies had showered and changed, Command Day brief took place, whereby the mission and aims were laid bare and the conduct was discussed along with some recommendations. In short, tomorrow morning at 1000 I will hand over the keys to the ship, along with a task list and navigation instructions, to the youth crew. They are to work together and achieve as much as possible in the following 24 hours.
Then with much excitement in the air, Command Day elections took place and I now have the pleasure to announce the following elected positions: Captain – Nick, Sailmaster – Louise, Navigator – Liam, Watch Officer – Keely, Watch Leaders – Dean, Liz and Dylan, and Chefs – Grace, Gemma, Sam.
Congratulations all, I know you will serve your crew well. Well, that’s it for tonight, apart from the screening of our favourite movie… youth crew will now turn-to anchor watches overnight, keeping the ship safe.
Stay tuned tomorrow night to see how our youthies fare.
Yours Aye,
Captain Adam Charlie Farley+
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Ahoy followers of our Young Endeavour journey! Command Day. We made it.
The beautiful weather at our anchor point at Jervis Bay made for a spectacular day under the command of our fellow Youth Crew! A morning stretch and some wise words from the Ship Crew gave Captain Waz and the team a step in the right direction.
With the new watches all set and ready to go, Captain’s Setting and Furling gave all our youthies the chance to prove their abilities on the high seas. Strong performances from all three watches; Sharkies, Chompers and Narwhals!!
Morning brief gave the Sailmaster a chance to give us the daily orders and help get everyone on the same page. With the staff crew getting ready for a holiday and giving us the ship, floral shirts and party music filled the deck and, with some final preparations, the ship was ours.
The Captain was given a small but very significant envelope that contained the essential, non-essential and completely optional tasks to be done over the course of the next 24 hours. 2 tacks were to be made at a minimum before leaving the bay and safety checks were the essential tasks to start our journey. However.
More amusing, optional tasks allowed some of our youthies to become part of the “Beach Assault Team” while others were put to the task of making a slideshow of the voyage, tying all the knots on the list, etc. These were some activities that bided the time for our incredible navigator - Ruscoe to set out a plan and work together with the Sailmaster - Hugh to create a sail plan.
Tacking stations were the focus for our late afternoon, preparing to weigh anchor and leave such a beautiful bay, for our last stretch of this incredible voyage.
Happy Birthday to the Capitan, Warwick, who turned 24 today! The wonderful MasterChef’s created a “cherry ripe” cake out of rice crispies, coconut, chocolate, and love. With a beautiful ceremony to end our day.
Sailing into the night leaves us the ability to see the lights from our destination. Sydney, here we come!
Wish us luck! From Nat and Tom!!

ARRRGH, ahoy there from the spectacular Jervis Bay! We’ve all been taken A-back by the crystal clear blue waters and snow white sands.
After a well deserved sleep in these sheltered waters which was a refreshing change to clinging to our bunk racks for dear life for the past few days, the ship rose to another banger of a morale tune “sung” by Blue Watch. Brekkie was fun after the early morning activity to get us all up and moving. We held another round of competitive not-competitive rope races which culminated in smashed eggs on deck and the mummification of said egg smashers.
Roast lamb for lunch was prepped by the staffies in the absence of our culinary wizard Steve. Once cleaned up, we took the RHIB’s across to Captains Beach bordering HMAS Creswell which was a mind-blowingly beautiful little spot. Pretty much everyone had a dip in the drink and a roll in the sand and played some creative beach games run by our Suitability legends, Speedy Sam and Eggs.
A few hours at the beach made everyone ready to head back home and attack a teak deck barbeque, devouring cheese platters, steaks, sangas, and salads. With our full stomachs, us youthies initiated the highly anticipated elections for our command day roles. Which will commence sometime around midday tomorrow. We held a vote for each available role that all willing youthies put themselves forward for.
The following roles were voted as follows: Captain – Warwick, Sailmaster – Hugh, Navigator – Ruscoe, Officer of the Watch – Dan, Watch Leader – Nick, Ben, Bridget, Master chef – Emily, Mackenzie, Alyshia
We were greeted after our elections by a low flying anti-submarine MH60-Romeo Helicopter which did a cool fly around our ship. *Thanks Squizz!!* And then watched an amazing film about the rounding of Cape Horn back in 1929 on a 7 story tall sail ship.
Signing off from our anchor watch, Ben and Giles.
“I believe that positive energy and optimism help us to take up any challenge in life and to succeed in even the most difficult tasks. I also believe that positive energy is contagious: We can transmit it to others”
