No smoking including e-cigarettes and vaping or drinking is permitted in our office or on the Ship throughout the entire voyage anywhere on the Ship. Participation will involve physical effort and exposure to greater than usual risk.
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The Trust attempts to minimise all risks by being a responsible and professional organisation with high standards of safety and discipline. Participants must agree to abide by all instructions given to them by the Spirit Crew. There are statutory safety briefs given on board about Fire, Abandon Ship and Man Overboard amongst others.
However, some immediate tips for you are:. Spirit of Adventure Trust has the right to cancel, advance, postpone or substitute any scheduled sailing at any time — hence our recommendation to take out travel insurance. You are also agreeing:. Below is our programme schedule, including dates and ports.
We work closely with schools from across New Zealand and reserve spaces on specific voyages for them each year. We understand that for many participants, finding the money required for a day voyage may be your first challenge.
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Previous participants have taken on part-time jobs, asked friends and family for help or spoken to local organisations to financially support them. Remember - the earlier you book your voyage, the more time you have to fundraise! Click here to download our funding tips PDF. Because it's important to us to us to enable all young New Zealanders to enjoy a 10 Day voyage, the Trust has financial scholarships available for those who meet the criteria. When you select a voyage and complete your booking, you will be given an option to apply for a financial scholarship.
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If you think you can fundraise yourself then please leave this section blank, but if you require some help with your voyage fee, you will be asked some questions to determine your eligibility. Please remember that the more information you provide to us, the more likely you are to receive a financial scholarship. More Info. Participants can now undertake ocean-based adventures for their Adventurous Journey as well as their Residential Project.
See below for details. For more information about Spirit of Adventure please click here. Adventurous Journeys: 10 Day journeys can be counted towards the Adventurous Journey section of the Gold level under the following circumstances - note that using the voyage for the Residential as well will affect which parts of the Adventurous Journey can be counted.
We strongly suggest that if bringing a camera on board, you equip yourself with a dry bag for the safe keeping of your camera — please remember you are within a wet environment. Please bring your camera charger with batteries. Once you are confirmed on a voyage, you will receive an invoice for the full fee less your deposit paid to the email address you have supplied in your booking.
Yes you can pay off your invoice as you go, as long as it is paid in full, three months before your voyage. There is a lot of preparation involved with every sailing, so we need to close off voyages three months out. If there is a reason you are unable to pay your invoice off in full, three months before your sailing, please contact us so we can come to an arrangement for it to be paid. If you haven't paid or contacted us, then we may need to remove you from your voyage. Please make sure you have permission from them first.
Yes we have financial scholarships available to apply for if you meet the criteria. You will need to complete the financial scholarship application in the booking form on the 10 Day Development Voyage and send in the relevant supporting documentation to us via email. Once we have received your information, we will process your application and get in touch. Please don't bring it with you. We have an ample supply of various sea sickness medication in the unlikely event that you need it.
For safety reasons, we record and administer it, so we know who has taken it and can monitor you. You can book directly with us. Fishing gear and dive equipment is not permitted on board. On each voyage we aim to have 40 students from different schools from all over New Zealand to get the complete experience. Yes we will! If you would like to organise this you can contact Lauren or simply browse our School and Community page. If you attend secondary school we need confirmation from either the Spirit Coordinator or your year Dean that they are aware you will be out of school during that time.
Every voyage is different and it will often depend on weather. We have a live ship tracker on the home page of our website, so make sure you tell your friends and family to keep an eye on where you are! Most of our voyages are unisex. All activities are done as a team, but we do have separate living areas and bathrooms for male and female paticipants 20 on each side of the ship.
The ship operates around the New Zealand coast throughout the year and may sometimes be away from immediate medical support the ship's crew are fully trained in marine first aid. The voyages can at times be mentally and physically demanding with acitivities including sailing, swimming and hiking. We have specific 'Medically Fit' criteria for each voyage type which you will find when you start your booking.
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If you have any concerns or questions, please get in touch with us to discuss. For each voyage type, there are some medical and general criteria that you will need to meet. These vary depending on the voyage type that you will find on the specific voyage page on our website. If you have any queries around this, we encourage you to give us a call to discuss.
You can apply for a funding scholarship for the 10 Day Development Programme directly through us providing you meet the criteria and we also encourage you to fundraise for your voyage. We will give you some helpful ideas once you are signed up. Our home port is Princes Wharf in down town Auckland, but we do at times travel around the country. Check out the schedule for specific dates and location of ports.
We have certain medical criteria that you will need to meet if you would like to take part in a voyage. Check out the medical criteria in the type of voyage you'd like to participate in, and if you have any more questions, please give us a call in the office.
Of course you can come back! But it will need to be as a crew member. If you're aged between yrs, you can apply to be a Leading Hand. Due to the type of voyage, you must be aged 18 years and over on joining the ship to take part in an adult coast voyage. If you're under this age, you should sign up for our day development voyage. We'd love to stay in touch with all of our past Participants. You're welcome to sign up to be part of our volunteer crew, either for day sails or as a Watch Assistant on our longer voyagers.
Check out our Join Our Crew page to find out more about it. You heard right :- We do take all mobile and electronic devices off participants on our 10 Day and 5 Day voyages. This is so you can fully engage in the programme, plus you will be way too busy anyway switch off - to switch on!
The ship is in daily contact with the Spirit office, so if an urgent message needs to be sent through, we can easily make that happen. And your friends and family can follow the ship here, so they know where you are! You can apply directly with us. We typically sail during the day and anchor up later in the afternoon. Although on some voyages that are going from one port to another, there may be the odd night sail.
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