Sailing the Sydney Tall Ships in Sydney Harbour + Climbing the Mast

Step backmost successful clip and immerse yourself successful the affluent maritime past of Sydney Harbour connected an day Sydney Tall Ships cruise that promises to beryllium an unforgettable adventure.

As you sail aboard a majestic vessel, feeling the upwind successful your hairsbreadth and the unforgettable thrill of being portion of a bygone era, you’ll beryllium greeted with a unsocial position of Sydney Harbour, allowing you to spot iconic landmarks from a antithetic angle.

Ready to sail

The Tall Ships successful Sydney are accepted rigged ships that were erstwhile utilized for long-day voyages, specified arsenic the travel from Plymouth, England to Sydney each those years ago.

But are present utilized to transport tourists astir the harbour whilst besides providing an immersive experience.

Not lone bash you get to bask the thrill of riding connected a historical ship, but you get to ascent the mast, a genuinely unforgetable acquisition – if you person the tummy for heights!

If you’re reasoning of doing a Tall Ship Tour successful Sydney but not definite what to expect, support speechmaking to find out.

Our Experience connected The Sydney Harbour Tall Ships

Credit: Destination NSW

The imaginativeness of the Tall Ship Cruises was to reconstruct past to the harbour and springiness a unsocial acquisition to tourists and locals alike.

It is present listed arsenic 1 of the apical 10 Experiences successful Sydney and promises to beryllium an unforgetable acquisition for the full family.

The 1850s-style woody heroic ships billowing sails volition cruise past iconic landmarks specified arsenic the Sydney Opera House, Sydney Harbour Bridge, Fort Denison, Luna Park and Taronga Zoo.

The passionateness and enthusiasm of the unit was truly catching and shone, particularly our Captain Dave, who shone done with the mode helium told america his communicative and spoke to each rider connected board. Here arsenic idiosyncratic who genuinely loves what helium does.

And those radical person infectious vigor that you can’t assistance but privation to acquisition much of.

Not lone was it an enjoyable Tall Ship, pirate escapade but 1 that inspired maine to support believing successful my imagination and loving what I do. Only large things tin travel from it.

Additional Information

• Where: Departs from Campbell’s Cove Sydney Harbour
• When: 11-1pm connected weekends 1:30-3:30pm each time but Tuesday
• How long: 90 minutes with BBQ seafood lunch
• Suitable for: Families with children
• Website: SydneyTallShips.com.au
• Suitable for nutrient allergies! You tin get a cocoa hazelnut brownie – gluten free, and for vegetarians options and vegan options, determination are greenish leafage salads.
• Bring bedewed upwind gear, prima hat, sunglasses, and deterioration sturdy footwear. Sharp-heeled shoes are not allowed.
• The ships won’t sail during atrocious upwind conditions, but you volition person a afloat refund if this happens.

My Experience Climbing the Mast

Credit: Destination NSW

Fresh oysters with a lemony tang, barbecued prawns, crab rolls, spinach and feta triangles, the platters of nutrient kept connected coming around.

Except I could hardly devour it. I was excessively tense astir the mast ascent challenge, which is simply a secret question fearfulness of mine.

I had to besides bounds my intake of champagne connected this agleam and sunny outpouring time connected Sydney Harbour to conscionable one. Of course, they besides service brushed drinks arsenic well.

I was going to ascent up a 15 metre ladder, different known arsenic a mast, connected the historical Tall Ship connected Sydney Harbour.

A mast that sways successful the breeze. Did I notation that determination are tons of breezes successful the springtime successful Australia?

And a mast that sits supra shark infested waters.

Well, I needed the pirate successful maine to footwear the fearfulness retired of maine truthful I could ascent that mast, respect the views, instrumentality the photos and get backmost connected platform truthful I could devour much of yummy food, without the sickening dread upsetting its taste, and down immoderate much champagne successful celebration.

“Geez Caz. You’ve bungyed before, you tin ascent up the mast,” Craig started connected his pep speech that helium has had to springiness maine galore times earlier successful beforehand of ladders.

I’ll retrieve that telephone erstwhile it’s clip to bash bungy Craig – “geez you’ve sky dived before, you tin bungy!”

Credit: destination NSW

Usually, I person Craig successful beforehand of maine oregon down lending a hand. But this clip helium was connected the mast other maine and helium scaled up similar Spiderman portion I was inactive down the bottommost getting my harness clipped on, asking for the information instructions erstwhile again.

“Come connected Caz, you tin bash it. You’ve got a harness on.”

“Just instrumentality your time. You’ve got it.”

Rung by rung I dilatory edged my mode up, keeping 3 points of interaction the full time. My legs wobbled, my enactment came retired agelong and drawn, trying to summation courageousness with each one.

“I hatred this. Why americium I doing this?” my caput kept repeating arsenic the mast got narrower and narrower the higher up I got.

I look up and Craig was shoving the camera successful my look expecting maine to smile. Didn’t helium cognize a grin mightiness conscionable apical my wobble implicit the borderline and down to the shark pit below?

“The harness volition drawback you if you autumn and you won’t spell anywhere,” Jo the pirate teacher told me. No 1 had tested that mentation retired yet and I didn’t privation to beryllium the first.

“Now however the hellhole bash I get connected the pirate viewing deck?”

“Just drawback the enactment and dilatory ascent up.”

A twist of the assemblage 1 way, the different way, a flimsy propulsion up, a genu connected the platform and earlier you knew it, I reached the pinnacle and could respect the astir gorgeous presumption of 1 of the astir spectacular harbours successful the world.

At the apical of the mast!

Craig, who is meant to beryllium acrophobic of heights, was snapping distant and enjoying himself, the fearfulness abruptly gone, and excavation started to descent distant arsenic the existent pirate successful maine came retired and I was near successful awe of the views.

That truly was amusive and the reward was worthy the swallowing of the fear. It was the eventual exhilaration.

The vessel was truly packed of anxious would-be pirates waiting to ascent the mast, and Jo rapidly came scurrying up the mast without immoderate harness to hurry america backmost down. I was somewhat disappointed.

Not conscionable due to the fact that I wanted to support admiring the view, but due to the fact that present I had to get backmost down the ladder.

It was overmuch easier, though my legs inactive shook and my enactment was inactive dense which prompted Jo to telephone up, “Are you good up there?”

“Um yeah.. but I americium stuck.”

My harness had gotten caught connected the ladder rung and up helium came scurrying again to assistance merchandise it.

“Better that they sometimes get a spot stuck similar that past are escaped and nonstop you tumbling into the sea.”

“I perceive ya Joe!”

The Tall Ship Sailing Experience

Andrew Gregory; Destination NSW

I soon deed the deck, unharnessed myself, gave my interior Blackbeard a pat connected the back, and headed to the bow of the vessel wherever I thoroughly enjoyed immoderate much prawns, chilled wine, the presumption and clip with my pirate husband.

The pirate workers ran astir moving the vessel and serving america with immoderate we needed to marque our 2 hr cruise a pleasurable experience.

A set played accepted Australian people euphony from the archetypal settler epoch giving america the afloat 18th period sailing experience.

I sat backmost to bask the sun’s rays chatting to my chap pirate passengers and the skipper of the boat, who injected the connection “ripper” into astir each sentence, truly adding to the Australian authenticity to the Tall Ship experience.

The Southern Swan was the timber sailing vessel we were sailing on. A replica of those that came implicit connected the First Fleet, and rescued by David Warne and Marty Woods 5 years agone arsenic it sat rotting connected the wharves of Sydney Harbour.

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