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Day 5 – Enter the Tasman Sea
Ahoy there families and friends, hope you are all well and aren’t missing us too much!
Friday means floral shirts day which started out with Red watch’s beautiful voices singing to us over the loud speaker, as we continued sailing to Jervis Bay. When the night time watches came to a close, the day time watches began. But of course we devoured a most scrumptious breakfast made by our beloved Ash. After breakfast came our daily morning debrief and of course happy hour!
The day was filled with watches, obtaining new information, revising goals and rope races. Captain Charlie went through sail theory with us giving us the basics of how to use sails to gain the best advantage over the rough seas. Lunch was subway day, so after building the perfect sandwich and devouring it, we moved on to rope races!
White watch took the lead at 12 points leaving Red and Blue watch to eat their bubbles. We were tested on sheets, furling lines etc helping us to deepen our understanding of the amazing tall ship we are on. In our watches (Red, Blue and White) we recapped the goal we set on day 1, and how we can achieve and improve them. This lead to some climbing of the main mast and ticking off goals.
Emma gave us a run down on pressure systems around Australia and detailed how they can be advantages and disadvantages to all sailing ships. While Blue watch was left to finish off their watch the other watches received some much needed downtime.
Dinner was served at 17:15 and was very diverse making for a delicious meal as always, thank you Ash! Now as night time watches begin we say goodnight and see you all soon-ish!
Drue and Gracie
P.S Happy birthday to Drue’s little sister Penelope who turned 9 today. We all hope you had an awesome day and ate lots of cake.
Latitude/Longitude:
Conditions:
Weather: Fine. Wind: 131 @ 5kts. Swell: S @ 0.5m. Temp: 17.
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Dear readers,
STS Young Endeavour is, by the definition and origin of her name, about Aussie youths trying hard to achieve something difficult. This voyage certainly provided that... and then some. A challenging experience from all angles and areas. Yet the Youth Crew prevailed and found success. They should therefore be justifiably proud of themselves for persevering, seeing the silver lining and never wavering in their mission to have a great adventure. I am very proud of all of them and I'm sure you are too!
9 Days ago 23 Youth Crew from all over Australia, came together to sail this vessel, have fun and challenge themselves. They have not only done that, but have faced and overcome fears, and learnt a lot about themselves and each other.
They leave with new skills, improved persistence, resilience and adaptability, as well as generally knowing they are more capable than what they probably thought. And of course, having made great new friends - most probably, friends for life. It never gets old for us staff members, as we truly love our work.
Fair winds and following seas.
Captain Adam Charlie Farley+
