To the Victors go the Spoils - Dick Cawse’s Vanguard, Audi Winter Series Division A pointscore winner.
The 125 starters in the final pointscore race of the CYCA’s Audi Winter Series on 18 July, were greeted with a sun drenched Sydney Harbour and warm winter temperatures of 15˚C but alas not much wind. In many divisions this race was going to determine who took first place and the spoils of victory and who was relegated further down the leaderboard.
Principal Race Officer Denis Thompson got the fleet in away in 6-8 knots of westerly breeze that gradually dropped to 2 knots as the last starters commenced their race. The breeze tormented the fleet all day long, dropping out shortly after 1.30pm and then weakly filling in from the nor’east.
For Dick Cawse, owner of Vanguard, it was one of the most frustrating day’s sailing he has ever had.
“We started last and struggled our way through the fleet only to have the breeze drop out on us. When the breeze came back in we managed to get to the front, only to have it shut down again. We found ourselves in last place at one point but then rallied back to finish third,” Cawse said.
“I’m glad I don’t have high blood pressure. That was heart attack material!”
Finishing in third place gave Cawse the provisional series win in Division A from Bob Steel’s TP52 Quest and David Pescud’s Lyons 53 Sailors with Disabilities. It has been ten years since Cawse and his crew secured a divisional win in the Audi Winter Series, and having been the bridesmaid for the last four series in a row. 
Guy Stening’s Melges 32 Optimum secured triple glory – he was the fastest boat around the course, secured first place in his division and the provisional Division B series winner.Guy Stening’s Melges 32 Optimum secured triple glory – he was the fastest boat around the course, secured first place in his division and the provisional series win (Division B). Optimum was forced out of the series after a collision in race 10 but made a quick recovery to be back on the water for the last two races.
Division B was the largest division in the series and extremely competitive with 23 boats. Warwick Sherman’s Occasional Coarse Language was second with Tony Kirby’s Patrice Six coming third.
Chris Rabbidge’s modified Mumm 36 Mean Machine, Division D winner.In a closely fought Division C only three points separated Europa (David Mason), Solahart Rum Jungle (Lost Boys Syndicate) and Celestial (Sam Haynes).
For Chris Rabbidge, he is lucky to have a boat that loves light air. Rabbidge’s modified Mumm 36 Mean Machine secured a win in Division D and the provisional series win on a countback from Alan Mather’s Akela and Peter Sorensen’s The Philosophers Club after a game of snakes and ladders.
“It was a mentally tough day on water today – the wind shifts were just phenomenal. We’d fall down a snake and try to find a ladder to bring us back up. There was breeze out there but you really had to find it!” an exhausted Rabbidge said.
“It was a closely fought division – what started out as a fun social sail this winter changed when we got a few wins under our belt. We realized that we were doing okay and decided to take it more seriously. Going into today’s race we knew we needed to win and get four places on Akela to secure the series division win. We didn’t know that we’d won until we saw the printed pointscore,” Rabbidge concluded.
John Santifort secured the double win – race and the provisional Division G series win with his Hick 30 Carats n Kilos and had the honour of being handed the set of keys to an Audi A5 Sportback 3.0 TDI Quattro for a week.
Other Provisional Division winners include Justin Graham’s Jet (Division E), Steve Wyatt’s Double Trouble (Division F), Jason Klaas’s The Holy Gale (Division H), Shaaron Walsh’s Trim (Division J), Paul Williams’ Takana (Division K) and Richard Holstein’s Next (Sydney 38).

Seventy eight for Audi Sydney Gold Coast Yacht Race - Geoff Boettcher’s Reichel Pugh 51 Secret Mens Business.
A bumper fleet of 78 has entered the 25th Audi Sydney Gold Coast Yacht Race at close off on 16 July proving its popularity as a feeder race to other northern regattas such as Audi Hamilton Island Race Week.
The Audi Sydney Gold Coast Yacht Race is the third event of the four-part national Audi IRC Australian Championship and current leader Harvey Milne’s Archambault 31 Aroona will compete in this race with Anthony Paterson at the helm. Aroona will do battle with other IRC Championship top ten yachts including Michael Hiatt’s Farr 55 Living Doll, Nicholas Bartels Cookson 50 Terra Firma and Howard Piggott’s Beneteau First 40 Flying Cloud.
Robert Oatley’s 100 foot super maxi Wild Oats XI, and Peter Millard and John Honan’s 98ft maxi Lahana will be the front runners for line honours, while Wild Oats X (Bob Oatley’s Reichel Pugh 66 that will be skippered by Iain Murray), will do battle with other 60 footers; Peter Harburg’s RP66 Black Jack and Stephen Ainsworth’s RP63 Loki.
The race for the IRC overall win is wide open with a strong group of 40 and 50 footers including last year’s overall winner Ed Psaltis & Bob Thomas’s modified Farr 40 AFR Midnight Rambler, Andrew Saies’ Beneteau First 40 Two True, the overall winner of last year’s Rolex Sydney Hobart, Paul Clitheroe’s Beneteau 45 Balance, Darryl Hodgkinson’s Beneteau First 45 Victoire, Rob Hanna’s JV52 Shogun, Geoff Boettcher’s Reichel Pugh 51 Secret Mens Business and Syd Fischer’s TP52 Ragamuffin.
The 384 nautical mile Audi Sydney Gold Coast Yacht Race commences on Sydney Harbour at 1pm on Saturday 31 July from a start line off Nielsen Park, then proceeds out to the heads, turns left and head north to the Gold Coast, finishing just off Main Beach, Southport.
The CYCA’s yacht tracker system will allow members of the public to track yachts throughout the race. Each yacht is fitted with an Inmarsat D+ transmitter, which automatically updates the yacht’s latitude, longitude, course over ground and speed over ground – and transmits that information via satellite and then onto the race website http://goldcoast.cyca.com.au. In addition to showing each yacht’s position, the yacht tracker system also shows the distance to finish line, as well as its progressive corrected time position under the IRC and PHS handicap divisions.
Highlights from the Audi Sydney Gold Coast Yacht Race will be shown on Monday 23 August at 8.30pm on ONE HD, as part of the four episode wrap of the Audi IRC Australian Championship.
Jennifer Crooks

Great Tips at Free Info Night

Sydney City Marine has partnered with some of the boating industry’s leading experts to present a free hands-on interactive information evening on Wednesday 18 August from 6:30 to around 9:30pm at Sydney City Marine, just under the Anzac Bridge on James Craig Road, Rozelle.
Following an Insiders Tour of the facility, you’ll have the opportunity to talk with professionals about the latest product developments in the electrical side of the boating industry.
Twin Disc, Raymarine Asia and Enerdrive representatives will all be on site, together with Sydney City Marine Electrical’s Rocky Tassone to answer any of your installation questions.
You’ll be able to check out the latest E-series widescreen from Raymarine, the world’s first Hybrid touch multifunction marine display – and talk to a factory trained Raymarine expert about the next system for your boat.
If you’re frustrated with the costly exercise of constantly replacing batteries on your boat, you need to talk to Brian Gatt from Raymarine – he is a guru of AC and DC Power systems.
Brian will be talking about these systems on the night, including solar, battery charging and inverting systems, as well as how to make the correct battery selection for your boat, no matter how big or small it is.  
There are three battery technologies – Standby, Starting and House Power/Cyclic use – and with Brian’s expert help, your battery problems can be solved, and you’ll discover the right battery for your boat’s needs.
Ever wondered about how electrolysis can affect, or is affecting your boat?
Brian will also be discussing the issues with electrolysis, how to protect your boating assets and the 21st century way of Cathodic protection. He’ll give you a great understanding of what happens underneath your boat that is usually neglected, and can lead to expensive problems!
Bookings are essential. Call the Sydney City Marine on 02 8572 7800 or email info@sydneycitymarine.com.au.

Noakes apprentices learning on the job. Noakes Youth apprenticeship program; building an industry, shaping young Australians

Well-known Australian boat yard, rigging and marine maintenance business, Noakes Group, is now taking applications for apprenticeships through its successful Noakes Youth program.
Noakes Group is offering up to 12 places across the Sydney, Newcastle and Nelson Bay regions to suitable applicants intending to complete the Marine Craft Construction Certificate III TAFE course, as well as those interested in undertaking a traineeship in marine painting.
“Noakes’ apprenticeship program has been in place for 20 years and as market leaders we continue to invest in the marine industry’s future starting from the ground up,” said Noakes Group managing director Sean Langman, a qualified rigger and respected yachtsman.
Noakes Group is a wholly Australian owned company that began as a garage rigging business more than 30 years ago. These days it operates six boat and ship yards along the Australian eastern seaboard as well as a fleet of ferries and hospitality ventures in New South Wales and Tasmania.
Because of its unique business diversity, Noakes apprentices are given opportunities to cross over into many areas of the marine industry, from learning the art of timber boat building through to high tech composite construction.
On the water the Noakes Youth program comes with opportunities to learn how to sail via a series of regattas. Apprentices can also gain their Deckhand (General Purpose Hand) Certificate and accrue time towards their Master Class 5 certificate learning the ropes aboard the fleet of historic Rosman ferries which operate year-round on Sydney Harbour under the Noakes Group banner.
Applicants should be enthusiastic with a mature attitude, a strong work ethic and a commitment to seeing through to completion an apprenticeship in conjunction with the relevant TAFE courses.
Interested applicants should contact Noakes Group general manager Aaron Harpham on 02 9905 0306 or email employment@noakes.net.au

New PFDs for Australian Boaters

Personal flotation devices made to the new Australian Standard AS 4758 can now be sold and worn around the country.
According to National Marine Safety Committee CEO Margie O’Tarpey, Australia’s marine safety authorities have met the timeframe of 1 July 2010 set by the NMSC to accept personal flotation devices made to AS 4758.
The NMSC has produced a point of sale brochure for retailers, dealers and the general public explaining the PFDs made to the new standard and what they mean. Copies can be attained from marine safety authorities or the NMSC.
O’Tarpey explained that it is important for retailers and the general boating public to understand how to identify the markings on the new PFDs.
“The new standard identifies PFDs for different uses according to ‘Levels’ rather than ‘Types’ and the new Level 150 PFD has increased performance characteristics compared to most PFD Type 1’s.
“Standards Australia developed AS 4758 to more closely align with international standards and to take into account advances in PFD design and manufacture.”
The NMSC confirmed that this change will have a minimum impact on boaters as retailers can still sell PFDs made to the old Australian standards, marked as PFD Type 1, 2 or 3.
“In the majority of cases, boaters won’t need to replace their existing PFDs as long as they are in a good, serviceable condition,” Margie O’Tarpey said.
“However, some marine agencies have applied limits to accepting older PFDs based on when they were manufactured so if unsure, boaters should check with their local marine safety authority.”
PFDs are recognised as a key safety feature in recreational boating. An NMSC study (The National Assessment of Boating Fatalities in Australia 1992 – 1998 Report) found that people who survived a boating incident were more than two times more likely to have been wearing a PFD compared to those who died and concluded that if PFD usage increased to 50%, 2-3 lives could be saved nationally each year.
NMSC cautioned that even though new PFDs manufactured to AS 4758 are starting to appear on retailers’ shelves, full market availability may not be reached until the 2010/2011 boating season.

The new PFDs are marked as -
    •   Level 150 – is a new level of PFD suitable for offshore use
    •   Level 100 –  is similar to PFD Type 1 and the minimum requirement for offshore use
    •       Level 50 –  is similar to PFD Type 2
    •       Level 50S (Special Purpose) – is similar to PFD Type 3

Big fleets expected for The Showdown 2010 on the Derwent
The Royal Yacht Club of Tasmania is expecting huge fleets of off-the-beach dinghy and multihull classes and keelboats to contest The Showdown 2010 regatta.
The Club has again chosen the weekend of 29-31 October as this is a long weekend in Northern Tasmania, making it attractive for sports boats, trailable yachts and dinghy and off-the-beach catamaran owners and crews to travel south for the regatta.
As an indication of their support, the Tamar Yacht Club and Port Dalrymple Yacht are not scheduling any club races on the River Tamar over the long weekend.
Dinghy entries are expected from clubs throughout Tasmania, with up to 50 Sabots using the regatta as part of their State selection series for the nationals to be sailed at Wynyard on the North-West Coast.
A major increase is expected in the keelboats which will include Divisions 1,2 and 3, Farr 40s, the 9m class, sports boats, multihulls and trailable yachts, with one Friday evening twilight race followed by three centre river races on Saturday and two on Sunday.
Based at the RYCT’s clubhouse at Sandy Bay in Hobart, The Showdown 2010 will be a three day regatta, starting with a twilight race for keelboats on the evening of Friday, 29 October.
RYCT Vice Commodore Murray Jones expects strong entries of Sabots, Optimists, 420s, Lasers, Mirrors, Herons, Flying 11s, 29ers, B14sm Sabres, Moths and 2.4s, as well as off-the-beach catamarans.
Supported by Hartz Mineral Waters and Tasmanian Bakeries, a huge programme of onshore entertainment is being planned at the RYCT on each evening of The Showdown, as well as family activities during the day in the Club grounds.
Peter Campbell

Australian Wooden Boat Festival

The 2011 Australian Wooden Boat Festival scheduled for 11-14 Feb 2011 in Hobart will have a much enlarged site spanning from Hunter Street to the massive Princes Wharf Number One Shed adjacent to Salamanca Place, just about double the size of the 2009 site.
Princes Wharf Number One Shed will be used to feature a range of smaller boats and will facilitate displaying fully rigged sailing vessels. There is heaps of space in the shed which will facilitate one of the most spectacular displays of small boats ever seen at any previous Australian Wooden Boat Festival.
Boats Ashore Manager, Graeme Hunt, is interested in showing vessels in all stages of restoration or new construction. “It doesn’t have to be beautiful if it is interesting. Can you help?”

Family team up for third win bid with veteran yawl / Maris nearing finish line 2008 Gosford Lord Howe Race.
Three grandchildren of famous marine artist Jack Earl, the original owner of the classic yawl Veolia Maris, have teamed up with co-owner Ian Kiernan in a bid to win the Hempel Paints 37th Gosford to Lord Howe Island Yacht Race for an unprecedented third successive year.
Skipper Tiare Tomaszewski, 44, will be joined by her twin sister Leilani and their younger brother Matt, 29, with Kiernan as the navigator, on the 414 nautical mile race that starts from Broken Bay on Saturday, 30 October 2010.
“We sailed with our grandfather when we were little kids and have often raced the boat with Ian since he bought it, including racing to Hobart, Lord Howe Island and the Gold Coast, as has Ben, our elder brother,” recalled Tiare, a member of the Sydney Amateur Sailing Club.
“I sailed with Ian when Maris won her first Lord Howe Island Race,” added Tiare, a film producer. In fact, all four grandchildren are in the media and film production business, which as Tiare says, comes down from the creative talent of their famous grandfather.
The relatively shallow, long keel of the Alan Payne-designed, Jock Muir-built yawl-rigged Tasman Seabird class yacht assured her a place in the fleet this year, but limits on draft and moorings at Lord Howe Island has resulted in a number of deep draft yachts missing out.
A total of 15 boats were nominated for the five available positions, with the five accepted being Warwick Sherman’s Occasional Coarse Language, Mike Freebairn’s Ray White Spirit of Koomooloo, Grant Dawson’s Karisma, Anthony Sweetapple’s Quetzalcoatl and Paul Clitheroe’s Balance.
In addition, Sean Langman’s maxi yacht Loyal, representing the Huon Yacht Club in southern Tasmania, has been accepted by Gosford Sailing Club as a turn-around entry. She is a clear favourite for line honours in the race across the Tasman Sea.
The chosen boats will join seven boats with a draft that is acceptable for mooring in the Lord Howe Island coral lagoon.
The seven confirmed entries are Veolia Maris (Tiare Tomaszewski, Sydney Amateur Sailing Club), Polaris of Belmont (Chris Dawe, Gosford Sailing Club), King Billy (Phil Bennett (Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron), Charlie’s Dream (Peter Lewis, RQYS), Copernicus (Greg Zyner, Manly Yacht Club), Stampede (Rob Francis, Cronulla Sailing Club) and Frantic (Michael Martin, Lake Macquarie Yacht Club).
Peter Campbell

Spirit of Australia wins Clipper Round the World Race
A spectacular welcome greeted the crew of the Clipper 09-10 Round the World Yacht Race winners Spirit of Australia as they arrived back in Hull on 17 July at the end of their 35,000-mile circumnavigation.
The team’s elated skipper, Brendan Hall, from Brisbane, Queensland, was full of praise for his crew.
“Finishing in first place feels unbelievable. That was the seminal moment of my sailing career. All the hard work over the past two years and all the hard work of the team over the past ten months is finally recognised in public by everybody.”
Tens of thousands of people lined the banks of the Humber and the quayside of Hull Marina to welcome home the crews after a gruelling ten-month challenge that has seen them take on the world’s largest and most formidable oceans.
Crossing the finish line at the end of the 14th and final stage of the Clipper 09-10 Race, the Irish entry, Cork, claimed their second first place of their campaign. An achievement made all the more remarkable by the fact the team’s original yacht ran aground on a reef in the Java Sea in January.
Cork’s victory in Race 14 denied Hull & Humber their much coveted home port win but their second place finish did allow the ‘big orange boat’ to leapfrog Jamaica Lightning Bolt in the final standings to finish fourth overall. Again, an outstanding achievement for the team whose original skipper, Piers Dudin, was medevaced by the Japanese Coastguard in the North Pacific after his leg was broken when a huge wave washed him across the deck.
Clipper champions, Spirit of Australia, finished third in the final stage of the 14-race challenge, minutes ahead of Cape Breton Island, whose performance guaranteed them a third place on the final podium, just 1.3 points behind Team Finland.
For every crew member this final race is a poignant moment. Sailing around the world is a considerable achievement – more people have climbed Mount Everest than have raced yachts around the world.
Clipper Race founder and chairman Sir Robin Knox-Johnston, the first man to sail solo non-stop around the world had a message for the crews waiting next to the stage.
“You’ve achieved your ambition. You have sailed the oceans of the world, you have seen more of the sea than most people do and you have come through it all. I hope you go off now and continue sailing, take some of what you’ve learned the way you work as a team, back into your lives.
“I want to hear you say, ‘That’s the best thing I’ve done with my life’ – and then I want to hear you say, ‘So far,’ because then I know we have widened your horizons.”

The Double Eagle Mark II Mine Disposal Vehicle installed in the Huon Class Minehunter Coastal.Sea Mines an ever present threat

The recent sinking of the South Korean warship Cheonan, a 1,200 ton corvette which sank off Baengnyeong Island in the Yellow Sea is a timely warning that mine clearance is a critical activity for nations’ navies, according to ATSA Defence Services Operations Director, Neil Hodges.
Reports suggest the explosion that left 46 of the ship’s crew missing after the ship sank may have been caused by a drifting 60-year-old sea mine.
“Danger presented by either positioned or drifting mines highlights the need for the Australian Navy to ensure its readiness by having the latest equipment and technology that could prevent further disasters of this kind,” Hodges said.
“The Korean incident is a graphic example of the rapid and devastating effects of sea mines which are difficult to detect unless ships deployed for mine detection and disposal are kept at a high state of readiness.”
The RAN boosted mine warfare capability in 1993 when it six Minehunter Coastal Class ships were constructed in Newcastle representing a quantum leap to third generation minehunting capability. The ships are equipped with the sophisticated BAE SYSTEMS Tactical Data System, the Thales 2093 Variable Depth Sonar and the Saab Underwater Systems Double Eagle MK II Mine Disposal System.
ATSA provides specialised Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) support and services for systems operated by the Royal Australian Navy.

Burnett blitzes in Bochum bringing home three gold medals - Alyce Burnett training at the AIS European training centre.
Alyce Burnett, a member of the AIS’s Sunshine Coast Kayak Squad, returned to Australia with three individual gold medals and two silver medals after a fantastic performance on the Australian Canoeing Junior tour.
Burnett won two gold medals in the ladies K1 1000m and 500m finals in Bochum, Germany, making her the first female to claim a gold medal at Bochum. She follows in the footsteps of Olympic champion Ken Wallace who claimed gold in the men’s K1 in 2001 before going on to take out the Junior World Championship that year. Jo Brigden Jones won a silver in Bochum in the U16 class in 2005.
The result is a sensational performance among strong European competition and holds Burnett in good stead for future success. Bochum has become an important benchmark for Australian juniors and with such fantastic results, Alyce looks set to continue her success in the senior ranks in the near future.
Continuing her stunning run, Burnett picked up another gold medal in the ladies K1 1000m final after leading from start to finish in Auronzo. She also went on to claim silver in the K1 500m and K1 200m finals at the Auronzo Regatta in Italy.
The boys K4 crew of Wayne Dunbar, David Ceddia, Kellen Mills and Nicholas Bulmer also won gold in the K4 1000m after a close tussle with Italy in Auronzo.

Pride of the ADF train aboard James CraigPride of the ADF train aboard James Craig

The 1,000 tonne, 136-year-old, fully restored and operational Tall Ship, the barque James Craig became a sail training and leadership ‘classroom’ last month for 20 Navy, Army and Air Force personnel who are midshipmen and officer cadets of the Australian Defence Force Academy (ADFA) in Canberra.
The group was led by Major Ross Cable, OC, 1B Squadron, ADFA. Also attending the five day event were 19 personnel from Australia’s Federation Guard.
The first two days of the course were taken up with training including line handling, climbing, loosing sails into their gear and refurling, emergency procedures and the like. For the next four nights, when not on watch, the students slept on board in hammocks and stretchers.
The introductory training was followed by three days at sea. The weather on the first day was relatively light but that soon changed. Day Two saw the ship sailing at speeds of 10 knots or more in winds of 15 to 20 knots. The final day saw the wind reduce slightly but the sailing remained exceptional. Day Three also saw the ship carrying all 21 of her sails including the rarely set mizzen gaff tops’l.
Trainers and Defence personnel aboard James Craig. On the last day at sea one of the cadets was heard saying that he’d “been to the royals three times”.
“Each time, I was terrified of the experience but proud that I had done it,” he said.  Like most of those aboard, he’ll remember that experience for the rest of his life.
As the time at sea increased, it became very obvious that a strong bond was developing among the individual watches. Better still, bonds of friendship and mutual respect were being strengthened between the arms of our Defence Force. The distinctions between permanent James Craig crew, who were out there as trainers, and Defence Force personnel soon disappeared and, in its place, a true crew emerged.
In its usual understated way, the galley kept the sailors, soldiers and airmen and women fed and morale remained high as a result. The personnel contributed by playing ‘peggy’ and it says a great deal about the new friendships, that no one complained and all accepted it as part of the experience.
John Dikkenberg, Master of James Craig during the exercise, commended the Defence participants on being energetic, professional and friendly advocates for their various Services.
In a signal sent to Sydney Heritage Fleet, Rear Admiral James Goldrick AM, CSC, RAN, Commander Australian Defence College, said “Can you please pass my personal thanks to the James Craig permanent crew, who were first class in the way that they related to the midshipmen, officer cadets and AFG members and really looked after them superbly.”
A visit to Hobart is being proposed for early next year to coincide with the bi-annual Australian Wooden Boat Festival which will be held from 11-14 February.
Hugh Lander

Voyage crew take the helm on Endeavour.HM Bark Endeavour replica to undertake epic circumnavigation of Australia

The Australian National Maritime Museum’s magnificent replica of Captain Cook’s ship HM Bark Endeavour will make an historic circumnavigation of Australia in 2011–12.
Announcing the voyage last month the Hon Peter Garrett AM MP, Minister for Environment Protection, Heritage and the Arts, said the vessel will visit 18 ports on the 13-month voyage.
In 15 of those ports the finely crafted wooden ship will open for public inspection as a floating museum, displaying the living and working conditions on one of history’s great voyages of discovery – Cook’s circumnavigation of the globe in 1768-71.
Between ports Endeavour will be sailed by a core professional crew and 40 adventurous voyage crew who pay for their places on board and ‘learn the ropes’ – that is, learn first-hand how seafarers sailed and navigated tall ships in the 18th century.
Anyone wishing to join on the ship, for what has been described as the sailing experience of a lifetime, can apply now for a berth.
“This voyage is a major initiative in the National Maritime Museum’s outreach program,” Mr Garrett said. “It’s museum policy to take its facilities, its services and its ideals out across the country and share them with all Australians.
“We’re very excited at the prospect of Endeavour making its first voyage right around Australia and calling at so many cities and towns along the way.”
The ship will depart Sydney on Friday 15th April next year and is expected back at its home berth at the Australian National Maritime Museum, Darling Harbour, on Monday 21st May 2012.
It will open for inspection at Brisbane, Gladstone, Townsville, Cairns,  Darwin,  Geraldton, Fremantle (twice), Bunbury, Albany, Port Lincoln, Adelaide, Portland, Hobart, Melbourne, Eden.  It will also call briefly at Thursday Island NQ, Broome WA and Exmouth WA to take on provisions and exchange voyage crew.
The circumnavigation of Australia has been divided into 20 legs, each of five to 14 days. The ship will take 36 voyage crew members on each leg and prices for these places range from $1,250 to $4,000.  
Steady as she goes in a Force 9 … voyage crew at work on Endeavour’s quarter deck.In addition to the ordinary voyage crew, who sleep in hammocks, the ship has accommodation on each leg for four ‘supernumeraries’ who have their own individual cabins, the officers’ cabins on the original ship, and participate less arduously in the work on deck and aloft.  Prices for supernumerary berths range from $2,500 to $8,000.
While the ship is indeed an accurate replica of the original HM Bark Endeavour, the replica also carries essential concessions to the 21st century – engines, generators, an electric galley, showers and safety equipment – all hidden away in the cargo hold where Cook stored his ship’s provisions.
Information about the various legs of the voyage and booking application forms are available on the Endeavour website at www.endeavourvoyages.com.au and by telephoning the Endeavour Office at the Australian National Maritime Museum on 1800 720 577.
For more information about the museum phone
02 9298 3777 or visit www.anmm.gov.au