First Fleet-Rite of Passage Part One

Only official record of the First Fleet Reenactment Voyage from Portsmouth, England May 13, 1987 arriving in Sydney, Australia on Jan 26, 1988. It was the largest multi-national group of square riggers ever to sail together in peacetime on the same epic journey!

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• UK to Australia
• John Lind
• Sailing
• First Fleet
• Reenactment
• Voyage
• Portsmouth
• England
• Sydney Harbor
• Sydney Australia
• Australian History
• 1987
• 1988
• Square Rigger

[lindfilm]

Thanks Tracie for your comment. We may have met in Sydney? The selection of this extract was simply for technical reasons. I was advised that extracts should only be a max of about 3 mins.and the post-production service only had the facility to select from the start of each of the films which also included evidence of my credit. Henrik was my cabin mate between Tenerife and Cabo Verde where I transfered to Amorina. I was of course devasted. His brother Soren and I keep in touch. Cheers. Lindo.

[tracie365]

I sailed on Anna Kristina and was sad to know this was the only part of "Rite of Passage" shown with the loss of Henrk Neilson.

[lindfilm]

@tracie365 Dear Tracie, You can purchase a DVD of the entire voyage from Jonathan King - jonathanandjane@bigpond.com

If you are on FB you may wish to join a few FFR members on a FFR site. Search for Dan Yates and send him a message.

Haven't replied earlier as I didn't know anyone had messaged me on u-tube! Cheers... Lindo.

[tracie365]

I also was crew on "New Endeavour", "Eye of the Wind", and "Solway Lass". One coould say I've got sea inside of me instead of blood. We had to cull the first ship due to politics in the early 80's. Eye was a ship my mum sailed on the last leg of the bicentennial, and the latter ship before the first fleet stuff. Any video footage grateful, and thanks to the reference for the DVD of the voyage; muchly appreciated.