I spent half of yesterday sailing around Wellington Harbour on the Australian Navy's tall ship - Young Endeavour. The Young Endeavour scheme is kind of like NZ Spirit of Adventure ship or Outward Bound in NZ - except on a boat!
They took 40 or so of us for a sail around the harbour and we all had to help with pulling the sails up etc - it was a lot of fun! Below are pics - I forgot to take my camera, so the ones below are from my phone - and above is from their website (shows you what the thing looks like) We had the sails up just like it is above. A great way to spend an afternoon - smoking it around the harbour (well 17 knots anyway). The second photo is of the crew tightening the square sails after they were put away - fuck that for a joke!
4 comments:
You thinking of using your new found skills to join the NZ America's Cup crew?
Were you at all worried about the aussie boat snapping in half?!
Well i had signed up for team NZ, but the swiss offered me better money
The Swiss are good. Very good.
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