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Friday was interesting, weatherwise.

The first sail was at 12.30 pm, a small school group. It was warm (having looked at the weather observations, I'll change that to hot. It got up to 30oC, unusual for late March) and there was very little wind. At first the river was smooth, no movement at all, although that changed a bit later on. As usual, we motored up under the bridge, turned around, made sail and came back down the river under sail. Some of the kids didn't think we were moving. It was hard to sure. We were moving, at 1.5 knots (2.8 kph or 1.7 mph). As a guide, the average walking speed is about 3-4 mph or 5-6 kph.

( And then it changed a bit )

Just a couple of photos. Will write a bit for them tomorrow.

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So, Friday I go down to spend the day on the Lady Nelson.

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Woke up (relatively) late. Got too hot during the night and the stupid sleeping bag kept moving out from under me. Found out later that some of the others had slept on deck. That would have been cooler.

Probably also explains why there were footsteps above me quite late into the night.
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I must have slept for a couple of hours. When I went back up on deck, it was bit different.
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Woke early the next morning, and rolled out of bed (literally). Didn't want to hit my head again. Hadn't slept too well though, with my bags on the bunk, there wasn't enough room to move my legs around. When I did sleep though, I slept well.

Quick dress and then up the ladder, to discover something I noted a few times. When you're below deck, it's difficult to know what's happening above. So I ducked back down and come up again with my coat on.


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At 6.30 pm, I arrived at Elizabeth Pier. We had to be there by 6.30, to prepare for departure at 7. I'd been up in the library killing time by reading books about writing that I wouldn't have wanted to pay for, so I came down a bit early.

The crew were already there, getting the ship ready. We'll differentiate here between the 8 men/women of the "crew", being the members of the Sail Training Assoc and the 10 trainee crew/passengers/visitors.

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