CLIENT: Ormiston College
VOYAGE NUMBER: 20240913
FROM: Manly To: Manly
DATE: 13 September 2024
POSITION: Blakesleys, North Stradbroke Is
REPORT: White Watch
A group of 15 students and 2 teachers, said goodbye to our families and boarded South Passage from William Gunn Jetty in the morning around 8:30. After taking luggage to our bunks, we listened to a safety briefing about important emergency procedures. We learned where the head, the emergency ladder, the galley and where we muster was.
Then we got into the nitty gritty – learning how to belay, to take a turn, to sweat the halyards, to prepare the mainsail (flagging the sheet, setting up the vangs, removing the snotters and the gaskets) and then raised the mainsail and tidied the halyards to get them off the deck.
We set sail for Blakesleys, North Stradbroke Island. On our journey, we learned how to tack in winds up to 20 -25 knots, which took everyone by surprise, including a few bouts of sea sickness amongst the crew.
White Watch won the first knotting competition (round turn and two half hitch) with a speed of 43 seconds.