Firstly, at the start of my journey into the Challenger ship I was quite apprehensive about the whole process due to the fact that I had never experienced something like this before in my life. Yet however after a while of getting to know the crew members and the fellow students that accompanied me, I was able to find myself in a more comfortable and learning-ready atmosphere and attitude.

My first hurdle was getting used to the layout of the ship from the inside as I had many mistakes where I unknowingly tripped through certain doorways like ten times. Additionally, I learnt many different knots such as clove hitch knot and many other versions.

The most enjoyable yet difficult part of my day was definitely the cooking though, as I had a lot of issues occur such struggling to cut vegetables and I also struggled with cleaning the dishes as I used cold water instead of hot water.

Everyone loved the food in the end that the HURAA team (my team) made, and we received many compliments about it though Rowan took all the cheese.

I can’t wait for tomorrow to attempt sailing!

By Ahmed S & Anval

The highlight of the day was most definitely climbing up on to the bow of the ship.

We conquered the English Channel, leaving the Solent in our wake. We battled the elements and particularly enjoyed jumping up with the high waves, although it left one or two of us quite nauseous.

The Hurraa’s were turned into the HHurraa’s as Hasnain jumped to the rescue, helping the struggling team tie the sail.

Overall, it was the best part of the week so far!

This morning, Rowan unfortunately had to make breakfast for everyone (cereal), because his group (definitely not us) didn’t get up on time.

Following breakfast, everyone went on deck and we set the boat up for the journey ahead, dragging up the sausage floaters, unpacking the sails, and before setting off, watching a video of this boat making a global voyage in rough seas. We learnt about the Beaufort scale for wind, which is a scale that rates the wind from 0-12 for wind speed – a rating of over 8, which is called a gale is considered unsafe to sail.

Today’s sailing journey was quite long (6-7 HOURS), but then again tomorrows sail time will be even longer, so oh well…… Anyway, not as many people were seasick today, and since Kitty loaned us her speaker, vibes were up as Najim provided us with some entertaining tunes as we sailed across the sea. Coming into the harbour SOME OF US, got a bit too excited and potentially, maybe, hypothetically hurt their ankle, but they are making a speedy recovery.

The city of Weymouth is looking absolutely beautiful, and we can’t wait to explore it. Once we docked in harbour, Rowans HURAAAAs made everyone a blissful, and delicious meal, and Paul provided us some equally nice chips to accompany the meal. Sadly, for Rowan, his efforts for the meal went slightly in vain, as he was murdered by Noor with a bowl!!! One murder down, 13 to go. We now have some time to relax, before our very, very, very, long sail tomorrow all the way to Plymouth. Hopefully it’s smooth sailing and no one is too much of a sleepy head. YAYYYYY.

Aroosa, Umar. M