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South Passage Daily Report

CLIENT: Discovery Christian College

VOYAGE NUMBER:  20220824

FROM: Mackay to Roslyn Bay

DATE: 27 August 2022

POSITION: North Keppel Is

REPORT BY: Blue Watch

In the morning my blue watch team woke up at 0600 hrs and cleaned some brass items on the boat. Then at 0630 hrs I played the bugle to wake everybody up. Then after some pancakes for breakfast we had a knot tying competition for tying a bowline knot. The red team won with our blue team coming 2nd and white team 3rd.

After that we all started preparing to raise the sails to leave Pearl Bay. Whilst doing that a little drizzle of rain hit for about 5 minutes and then went away. After all of this we set sail east then tacked south towards the island which was about 7 hrs away. Over this time the boat got to a top speed of 12 kts and was on a very steep starboard angle.

Once finally arriving at North Keppel Island we let the sails down and put the anchor down. Then the schoolboys and the skipper took the dinghy to the beach to do some snorkelling. There wasn’t much to see, and it was very cold, but it was good to finally go for our first swim.

After coming back to the ship, we had our second knot tying competition of the clove hitch. It was the same standing as the one in the morning. After this was some slow cooked vegies and beef for dinner to lead me to writing this report. Jonah

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