Captain's Log
V03/25, Geelong to Hobart
3 February 2025

Day 8 – Command Day Baby!

2, 6, Heyyy everybody reading this amazing log. Today was huge for the Youth Crew as the day has finally come, COMMAND DAY. Each elected role was voted in last night and officially given to the Youth Crew for 24 hours starting at 10:00. Today’s adventure started with introductions to our new Youth Leader Crew; Ines as our captain, Lucy as our sail master, Penny as our navigator, and Tildy as our watch officer, as well as appointed new roles including Engineers Scottie and Nick. Beach Assault team, and media Crew Aiden and Simone.

It was safe to say that our original staff were excited as they went for a dip in the ‘drink’ to celebrate their holiday. The adventure continues as the Youth Crew were given a list of tasks to achieve before we set sail, planned to happen at 13:00. The crew enthusiastically chipped away at the list before the terrible news hit us. It had been communicated to us that the engines had ‘malfunctioned’ and it was going to take the new engineers about 4 hours to fix them, as this was their first big job.

As the engineers got to work, the beach assault team were given a briefing – going out on the water in the GPIB to measure the depth of the water and how far away it was from the main boat. As they went off to do their duties Youth Crew Members, Liam and Sandy got to work on one of the task creating a HUGE hammock in the middle of the boat using only rope. The hammock had to hold all 25 Youth Crew members on it for 5 minutes.

After 2 hours and lots of rope and blisters later, Liam and Sandy had finished the hammock just as the Beach Assault Team got back, so everyone hopped on the hammock as it creaked and got a couple of photos as it held hundreds of kilos of weight. The Youth crew then all got safety briefings from their new watch leaders and some completed some Setting and Furling drills.

As Liam and Nick report to you Live we are still in Port Arthur Bay as the anchor is playing hard to get. Ship crew are working hard to get us unstuck but it is fair to say that every one of us is still having heaps of fun.

Goodnight everyone come back tomorrow to see updates.

Liam and Nick Out +

Latitude/Longitude:

43 09.1S / 147 51.4E

Conditions:

Weather: Sunny Wind: 10-30kn NNE Temp: 26C