Sailing ships to re-enact Aust, voyage
NZPA-AAP Sydney Eleven square-rigged sailing vessels will reenact the journey of the first fleet as part of Australia’s bicentennial celebrations.
They will take eight months to sail from London to Sydney in the largest convoy of sailing ships to make a long ocean passage in more than 100 years.
A spokesman for the organiser, Bounty Voyages, said “fit, healthy and adventurous” men and women were being sought to sail as trainee crew, and details were available from travel
“This original First Fleet voyage represented an extraordinary maritime achievement carrying 1350 men and women to a practially unknown continent and establishing European settlement," he said.
In the re-enactment the ships will leave London on April 24, 1987, arriving at Sydney on January 26, 1988, for Australia’s 200th anniversary. The route will be London, Portsmouth, Tenerife, Rio de Janeiro, Cape Town, Mauritius, Fremantle, Sydney.
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