IVO Tweed Heads
After a long day yesterday, culminating with Tacking stations in the first dog watch, it was time to roll into watches over night. This was a good chance to settle down and put into practise some of what was learned during the day and at a slower pace.Morning brought about a brilliant sunrise with pleasant NE wind of 15-18kts. After a later start to the morning with wakey wakey at 0700, the day was kicked off with morning brief, which included an informative salty seadog tail and the all important visit from ships mum – aka ‘Nana Diesel’. After morning brief it was time for Happy Hour (cleaning stations!) and a very informative navigation lecture by Suz the Nav. The rest of the day was spent watching the occasional whale breaching, dolphins surfing the bow wave or lazing around on deck in the sun!In the afternoon watch a special occasion took place – all Staff and Youth Crew gathered in the main cafe to sing happy birthday to Youth Crew member Mick for his 21st Birthday!!! Happy birthday mate.Until tomorrow…Ian HibbardLEUT, RANVoyage Captain
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Wind NE'ly 15-18kts. Low sea. Sky partly cloudy.
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Thank you Tarvi, Kaeden and Matt for your narrative of today's events. Intentions are to remain at anchor in Hunters Bay, just off HMAS Penguin, home of the RAN Diving School, a place close to my heart, having spent many a day there under training as a young Officer! The plan is to weigh anchor and proceed to HMAS Waterhen, in Waverton, to pick up our Community Day Sailors from the Windgap Foundation and take them for a sail around the harbour for 3 hours. The Youth Crew will help us host our visitors and give them an experience of Young Endeavour. We will drop them back to Waverton and then proceed to anchor in the harbour where we will have a good view of the Bridge and the Opera House for the Youth Crew's last night onboard. Until tomorrow. Yours Aye, Captain Mike