First, we all met at school and waited for ages (30 mins for one person), when we were ready, we all headed off to the school minibuses. After getting into the buses, we set off to Portsmouth (a two-hour journey), it was boring journey, and most people were half or fully asleep.

Once we reached Portsmouth, we embarked on an epic journey to find lunch at Gunwharf Quays, most went to Burger King and others had a packed lunch. Then after 30 minutes we regrouped to get our bags and went down to the mysterious yet inviting boats.

The walk to the boats was treacherous but worth while as once we were there we were greeted by welcoming smiling faces as we boarded the boats in our assigned groups. We started with a spectacular tour of the boats. We saw the musty brown sail locker, the spectacularly wonderful toilets, the gulley was fabulously spotless, and the sleeping quarters were smallish. We sailed the boat. They taught us how to put up and take down the sails and sailed (some people got to steer the boat) to the ‘Isle of white’. After docking    we tidied the boat, then four of us went down below deck to cook delicious fajitas. Finally got on with our evenings.  ​

Today we travelled from the Isle of Wight to Weymouth. We had to wake up at 7 O’clock in the morning, get our overalls and lifejacket on and when all of us got onto the top deck, the atmosphere was still lighting up as the sun was still rising to start the new day as well as a new voyage. We left port at around 8 O’clock to start our journey of what felt like a whole day voyage to Weymouth, we took turns in steering the boat, pulled up all of our sails which is the main sail, the stay sail and the Yankee. We travelled 52.1 Nautical miles (Tiredly but safely) and we had some sunshine on the first 2 hours of the voyage until the rest of the voyage was cloudy, windy and breezy. As we approached the harbour, we flaked all of the sails and switched to motor as we entered the harbour and we moored at the Weymouth Harbour at about 4 O’clock, packed our sails into sail bags and put them into a sail locker. After packing and cleaning the top deck, we disembarked the boat to look around Weymouth and went to an American candy shop and ramped up all of our lads sweets supply that all of us boys needed in the remaining time in our voyage. We then got back into the Tall ship (HMS Lisa) and for our evening dinner, we had a splendid Fish And Chips (we definitely did buy chips from a local fish and chips), I’m hoping that all of us would have a very well deserved nap time and a later start in day 3 of our voyage. During the voyage, 2 people felt unwell, but we won’t say names but whoever is reading this, you know who you are, and during a tack, one of our crew who was feeling unwell and was sleeping during the voyage, woke up to what he called it “It felt like a tornado is pulling our boat”.

Port watch’s cool quotes

Elliot J: “DEW IT!”

Aaron C: “How bad is it without me back home?”

Jaden B: “life is like a sandwich, but bread always come first”

Matthew L: “Why can’t we be friends?”

Seth T: “is it quiet without me home?”

— All typed by Aaron C

Today in Weymouth, we’ve climbed the Mast and many of us climbed to the very top meanwhile some of us climbed to the middle of the Mast, it was very fun. We made many puns and bets of who could get to the top of the Mast the fastest (and obviously Rob won)

Then we left the Weymouth Harbour at around 1-ish and it was a long voyage that lasted about 7 hours from Weymouth Harbour to Yarmouth. When we were sailing, we learned to tie new different knots like Clove-Hitch knot, Figure of 8 and a Noose knot. We arrived at Yarmouth around 7.30pm and pulled down the sails, packed them and put the boat to bed. We went to the toilets and had dinner it was really exquisite, we had sausages and mash with gravy. We then went to bed.​