CLIENT: Emmanuel College
VOYAGE NUMBER: 20260405
FROM: Gladstone To: Manly
POSITION: Horseshoe Bay
DATE: 11 April 2026
REPORT: Blue Watch
Today, Blue watch was the early bird who got the worm, as they woke up at the early early time of 12am to selflessly help the struggling white watch with lowering the sails. Since Blue watch is the most helpful and kind-hearted watch, they offered to clean up white watch’s slack job at packing up the headsails. This act of kindness resulted in all of blue watch having a late snooze of around 1:30am.
In the morning, all of us were woken up by Hugh’s boisterous, warm voice, shouting “Cold breakfast!, anybody for cold breakfast!” As we begrudginly climbed out of bed and had a slow start to the morning, we motored over to the beatufiul dunes of Tangalooma, courtesy of our skipper, Phill. At Tangalooma, we had a nice, warm breakfast of sausages, grilled tomatos on cheese, toast, and nice, runny eggs.
After everybody got changed, we lowered the ol’ reliable dinghy into the crystal-clear waters of Tangalooma, before departing towards the titanic dunes. As we arrived there, the tourists who were climbing up were as insignificant as an ant, becoming a small dot within the vast greatness of the dunes. Coming down the dunes was a hassle, as we were tossing and turning due to the steepness of the dunes.
After having a nice, relaxing swim, and washing off on the deck of the ship, we were off to Horseshoe Bay. During this sail, Blue watch was on watch from 3-8pm, Gybing a couple times to fully maximize the speed of the tailwind.
Arriving at Horseshoe bay at around 6pm, Hugh whipped up a fantastic meal of roast potatos, snap peas, pumpkin, and beef stew before giving a nice helping of canned peaches in cream and custard.
The skipper gathered everybody after dinner to announce the captaincies for tomorrows command day, where the three main roles that were being elected were the skipper, sailing master and the navigator. These elections were narrowed down to 6 candidates, with 2 being elected from each individual watch. After a fierce competition, the elected people were Sean, Jamian, and Angus, being the skipper, sailing master and navigator respectively.
Afterwards, we were seperated into our individual watch groups to vote on our watchleader, who we elected as Jono.
Tomorrow is the command day, where we will be sailing on our own to Manly, based on a point system. If we get 600/750 points, we will get a special prize 🙂