Day 10 – Community Day Sail

Wow, day 10. Community day is finally here.

Our morning started bright and early at 6.45 for a quick game of ubuntu at midships to get everyone up and ready for the big day ahead. This was our time to really solidify what we’ve learnt over the past few days by teaching and sharing our knowledge with Semloh Support Services from Toowoomba, the ROPE Association Brisbane and the family of our navigator, Matty.

We welcomed them onto the ship and started with a favourite animal icebreaker game. We then showed our guests around our new home. Our guests were quite curious about how we handled Command Day and were fascinated about our living circumstances. Nathan then cooked up a storm with a variety of finger foods. We showcased some sails with our new crewmates then demonstrated laying aloft with a few youthies going up to the course yard.

At 13:00, our guests departed from our vessel, and we returned to HMAS Morton, where we did some end voyage chats and reflected on our voyage goals and full value contracts. We discovered the harsh reality of sea legs, which is the feeling of still being on The STS Young Endeavour when you are in fact on land. Afterwards, we returned to the vessel to the smell of A MILLION yummy pizzas cooked up by the one and ONLY Chef Nathan.

After a feed, we began writing letters to our future selves of 6 months. Once completed, we boogied, and we boogied hard. After we were all boogied out, we gathered in midships to watch our final night slideshow and ran through our mandatory and side quests that were given to our command day team. With a touch of sadness and many irreplaceable memories, we go to rest for the final time in The Young Endeavour.

Thank you to the staffies on The Young Endeavour. We are so grateful for this amazing Journey and the support you have given has been unmatched. We will always remember and be thankful for making this life changing experience as memorable as it has been.

And to end the final Voyage 5 Youthies entry in the Captain’s log, we would like to share two paragraphs of what the Young Endeavour means to us:

Describing what Young Endeavour means to us, might be one of our hardest challenges we’ve had. Young Endeavour means family, it means life changing, it means connection and adventure, and a thousand other descriptive words, but it is also indescribable.

Young Endeavour proves things to you every day, your capability, your toughness, your ambition, your ability to live in the present. Young Endeavour is family and adventure, and the end of comfort zones.

Lots of Love, from, Locke, Gypsy, Mattesse and Cooper. 🙂