The Australian National Maritime Museum’s replica of Captain Cook’s ship HM Bark Endeavour will make an historic circumnavigation of Australia in 2011–12, visiting 18 ports on a 13-month voyage.
The ship will depart Sydney on 15 April 2011 and is expected back at the National Maritime Museum on 21 May 2012.
The circumnavigation of Australia has been divided into 20 legs, each of five to 14 days. The ship will sailed by a core professional crew and 40 adventurous voyage crew who pay for their places on board and learn first-hand how seafarers sailed and navigated tall ships in the 18th century.
Anyone wishing to join the ship can apply online now for a berth. In addition to the ordinary voyage crew, who sleep in hammocks, the ship has accommodation on each leg for four ‘supernumeraries’ who have their own individual cabins, the officers’ cabins on the original ship, and participate less arduously in the work on deck and loft.
http://www.endeavourvoyages.com.au
Brisbane: 28 April – 8 May 2011 11 days
Gladstone: 21 – 26 May 2011 6 days
Townsville: 10 – 14 June 2011 5 days
Cairns: 24 June – 5 July 2011 12 days
Darwin: 3 – 14 August 2011 12 days
Geraldton: 30 September – 4 October 2011 5 days
Fremantle: 14 October – 1 November 2011 19 days
Bunbury: 9 November – 13 November 2011 5 days
Fremantle: 20 – 30 December 2011 11 days
Albany: 14 – 18 January 2012 5 days
Port Lincoln: 4 – 8 February 2012 5 days
Adelaide: 16 – 23 February 2012 8 days
Portland: 7 – 11 March 2012 5 days
Hobart: 24 March – 3 April 2012 12 days
Melbourne: 18 – 29 April 2012 12 days
Eden: 9 – 13 May 2012 5 days
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