South Coast Empowerment Voyage- Challenger 1
A group of young people ages 14-25 join us for a 5 nights action-packed Empowerment voyage – the second stage of the three voyage journey. Read on to find out bits and pieces of their expereince onboard Challenger 1
Day 1
October 20th, 2026
Trains are a nightmare, interesting play by Maggie to privatise them because they cancel more than they move. This increases AC and shifts supply leftward henceforth meaning AR decreases and demand decreases in theory, however as demand is inelastic it causes overload, cramming and dynamic inefficiency. I’m happy to go deeper just contact me (Finn).

The boat decided to nip itself well and truly away from the station making Ollie (not big on walking – big complainer – mass to contribution ratio) and I walk only a little way (a lifetime away for Kev) to find the boat next to the knockoff Dubai seven-star hotel to get slim chickens and squashies.

Learning about the lower and upper deck:
Sophie, Martha, Lewis, Dave and Sue treated us to a lovely tour of Challenger 1. On the upper deck we learnt lots of stuff but the most important bit was never fall in. Can’t be wasting those lifejackets at £50 PER FIX.
On the lower deck we learnt how to flush a toilet and little about the ropes and sails…
Sue gifted us our sailing gear which was the perfect piece top complete our sailing look and seem like we actually know what we are doing. Although we were quite delayed because of Ollie being a lazy slowcoach.
Sailing the boat in rough waters and sailing from the fire ashore while being evading large, ominous even enemies such as a ferry and hovercraft that was nationalised and dodging forts cannons to dock safely in a large Isle with many potatoes…
Finally we finished day 1 by having some yummy food made by Daves’s Dancing Dragonfish who brought the fun to the kitchen. Finn got a bit upset by the onions whilst Alex remained completely fine. Emma’s peppers were ignored by Dave many times. Everyone on the boat loved it (we think) even though we didn’t have much left after Finn kept taste testing.
Day 2
October 21, 2026
Wake up Seven am, we had toast and with choice of tea and coffee.

The weather was looking on the rougher side as we could hear the rain on the windows.
Everyone was in good spirits after most had a good night sleep and the toast chat was thriving.
We were advised to get into our wet stuff and wrap up warm, not a great sign.
We set off around 9:00ish the take-off was reasonably smooth, definitely better than the first day and we were on our way fairly quickly.
We were on the water without our sail for a good few hours before finally deploying it when we had exited the red zone.
We proceeded to harness the wind, which was definitely very high, whilst being heavily rained on, that pushed a small group to go and make hot beverages for the crew.
Then we went down for lunch which was filled pasta with spinach and ricotta in a sauce. It was nice.
Then we had to come back out and it was not raining as much anymore which was positive.
We then took the sail down which was a collective team effort. We all did good.
Then some of us help make some more hot beverages which was nice of them.
We then sailed into the port and helped get everything tied in and sorted out as a group.
We played some card games like uno before dinner.
Dinner was good it was fish and chips with chip shop curry sauce.
Thank you.
