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Everyone has loved working with Sally and we all depended on her support, help, guidance, honesty, and good humour.

One of the adult leaders added: “My best bit was being able to sail on a very different boat and getting to learn all about it: we had some great sailing passages. Funniest bit was washing up procedure last night when I was in goal for the cutlery that was getting thrown at greater and greater speed and cups and managing to catch them all – it was good fun. Great trip and a well-run boat, thanks for everything.” Young people take part in all activities on board – sail handling, steering, navigation, cooking, keeping watch (including night watches) etc. We don’t even decide in advance where the boat will go: there will be a start and finish port, but what happens in between depends partly on the weather but also on what the young people want to do. Super day out, thank you! Lovely to meet everyone and learn about what you do! Really inspiring and some fantastic stories to share. Looking forward to staying in touch in the future.” Qualified sea staff (anyone who has previously sailed with us as a watchleader, bosun or engineer) and anyone who has already sailed as sea staff but is partway through training and assessment – ideally please give us voyage numbers of anything you would like to do ( see here for voyage numbers); or give us names of any regular clients you’d particularly like to sail with; or simply tell us the maximum number of days you can offer in 2024 and any times of year you can or can’t manage. Please be specific: “voyages in university holidays” only works if you tell us your exact holiday dates! Big thanks to sea staff Diggory, Lauren, Sara, Unity, Glyn Collins, Caz, Susanna Paynter, Michelle van den Bergh, Andy Royse and Tom Knight. All the best to Sara who is now away for the summer, having spent more time on board so far this season than most of the staff!In January 2016, our previous vessel John Laing was named Sail Training Vessel of the Year by the Maritime & Coastguard Agency and the Association of Sail Training Organisations. The young people took on the challenge of getting off the anchor under sail, and they had a nice evening sail to Portland and a magical walk on the beach: To volunteer for OYT South ashore, please see here. To help with the vessel’s annual refit, see here. After that, a couple of adult day sails allowed us to sail with sponsors and donors as well as to invite representatives of the Marine Accident Investigation Branch and Trinity House, as well as our local MP, plus some friends and family of the OYT South team. Prolific has a highly-qualified professional Staff Skipper and Staff Engineer, and sometimes uses other people in paid professional roles. However, the watchleaders and bosun are almost always volunteers, and we may also use volunteer relief skippers, engineers and mates when staff are on leave.

They anchored in Stokes Bay on the first night and then spent Tuesday doing lots of sail training and manoeuvres, as well as going out on the bowsprit, learning to steer and filling in the logbook: Big thanks to sea staff Diggory, Brigid Stoney, Glyn Collins, Anna Owen, Graeme Cole and Roisin Smith. Anna has started work on her 2M assessment and Rois continued progress towards 3M. Overall, it was such a positive experience for the sea staff to see the tenacity and courage of the young people and to watch them grow as a team and as individuals. We work with around 450 young people each year, taking them to sea as active crew members in a purpose-built sail training vessel. We have come to be recognised as one of the leaders in the field of sail training, and in recent years our vessel has almost always been filled to capacity – and with a waiting list for sailing volunteers.

I feel I have some appreciation of what you and your team do but what I can see is lots of enthusiasm, knowledge, and consideration for others and teamwork, carry on the good work. Thank you for a great day’s sailing.” Perhaps the easiest way to help us is to spread the word about our work. If we ever sail with an empty berth, it is not because no-one wanted to sail on that voyage: it is because someone who might have had the experience of a lifetime didn’t know that the opportunity existed. If we ever struggle to find sailing volunteers or are short of people to help with maintenance, it is because someone who might have loved the experience and brought their skills and enthusiasm to the charity hadn’t heard about us. And if we are struggling to bring in the funds to replace an item of equipment, or we have to turn away a young person because they cannot afford the full cost of their voyage and we have run out of funds to help them, it is not because there are no kind and generous donors out there, or people thinking of including a charity in their will: it is simply because someone who would have been interested in our work did not know about us and about how much difference their support could make.

volunteer sea staff bookings – including people who were told on voyages this year that they should think about returning as volunteers The modern Prolific was launched at Lysekil in 2005, and made her maiden voyage to Lowestoft. For five years she undertook passages around northern Europe and as far south as the Azores, before being sold to Stavanger to work as a part of the Pobel Project (Community Project for young adults needing support in education and employment). She sailed widely from 2010 to 2014, including Tall Ships races and a Russian National Geographic Expedition to Svalbard. Please do share them with anyone aged 11-25 who might be interested in sailing with us – as well as with parents, grandparents, teachers, youthworkers and others. We still have some places to fill this year and the issue is not that there aren’t people wanting to sail – it’s that too many people who would love the opportunity don’t yet know about us! If everyone who reads this newsletter found someone new to give the link or a leaflet to, we could easily fill the remaining places. Please note that a Duke of Edinburgh’s Gold Award is not something you can simply pay for. Very occasionally we have had young people on board who believe that “I have paid for the voyage, therefore you have to sign my residential”. OYT South reserves the right not to complete the Record Book for a crew member who does not put in a certain amount of energy, enthusiasm, commitment and co-operation. Any young person who is in danger of falling into this category should receive a debrief midway through the voyage while there is still time to turn things round. Keen Duke of Edinburgh Award participants have nothing to fear – we simply don’t wish to devalue your achievement by signing off people who haven’t put in anything like as much effort as most participants normally do!We announced a couple of weeks ago that our highly popular Staff Skipper, Diggory Rose, very sadly has to leave us at the end of this season. He will be joining us at the beginning of January and we know everyone will want to make him very welcome! On 10 th June we had a maintenance day – big thanks to Diggory, Josh, Lauren, Sara, Sam Gray, Rob Jelley, Martin Bayfield and Julian Ware. They did lots of work on the mizzen mast and capping rail, plus some painting and lots of other odd jobs to keep the boat in good condition and running smoothly.

This week I finally got round to it and it turns out it’s a REALLY EASY way to raise money for the charity I care about … and I definitely should have done it sooner.Last week’s newsletter ended with a crew of young people in care from Kent, who were in Poole at the time and planning the rest of their week, with an anchorage in Worbarrow Bay and a beach BBQ. They went for a walk ashore and enjoyed paddling, taking photos around the boat and watching the sunset. The staff did the anchor watches that night. The current Prolific, built in 2005, is a successor to the original Prolific, built in 1891 as a Grimsby sailing trawler – a 69-foot cutter-rigged ketch.

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