Tall ship Windeward Bound sails Queensland's coast with young crew learning life skills
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Young Lily Watson, the first person to admit that he spends a lot of time on his phone, but a journey on the "pirate" ship will help. One of the 10 young people in Windward Bound, a 17 -year -old, a youth development ship that is currently sailing from Hobart to Gladstone, the central Queensland industrial city. Mrs. Watson, who was limited ferry journey as a child as child, wanted take on challenge learn be more independent. "I'm trying to stop my phone addiction. I think this will always make it much easier to stop being on my phone," he said. "I just want to go out outside and more in nature, and I want to be in always. With the help of Rotary, the Brigantine -type tall ship regularly takes young people to journeys to learn about sailing and other life skills. “He's taking them out of comfort, Sarah Sarah Parry, the captain of the ship, said. Sarah Parry first had the idea of building a ship like Windward Bound in the 1960s Young people learn to operate the ship and to overcome difficulties such as sea disease. They also lose access to mobile phones. "As a teenager, they often don't know what their abilities are. This is a way to show them that they can overcome those who appear to them at that time."Said. "Young people love difficulties." Purpose 'Pirate Ship' 17 -year -old Lily Watson wanted to go on a Windward journey to learn independence. Mrs. Watson, who is currently working as an apprentice chief in a cafe in Gladstone Marina, said that the ship has published a very striking between white modern boats and yachts. “Very cool, very old [it looks] and very beautiful,” he said. Gladstone's departure along the beach -Roam will undoubtedly take a fair degree of independence for 10 new crews. Parry said that young people love him, he usually thought he was a pirate ship. "Every time the pirates of the Caribbean appear, we get a loot of people who want to come and take a look," he said. In 1848, the ship has been sailing since 1998, which was a copy of a ship in Boston. The 1960s, when Ms. Parry, a former member of the navy, stu sailing training in America and Europe. He thought it would be great to bring a concept similar to Australia. After calling an existing ship to be used the 1980s, he could not find anything suitable and decided to build one instead and modeled it from a ship built in Boston 1848. "We threw the spine 1990 and was released in 1996, he started to set sail 1998, and we've been doing it since then," he said. "Working is a very simple ship, but much more complex than a yacht or power ship." Approximately 6,000 young people sailed to Windward Bound of the Australian Australian In Australia and New Zealand, approximately 6,000 young people sailed on the vessel circulating hundreds of thousands of maritime miles. Thanks Rotary, he came Gladstone celebrate the organization's 100th birthday in Queensland and will return Tasmania in the coming weeks.