Eighty Dunedin amateur sailors set the jibs and scrubbed the decks on the majestic Spirit of New Zealand yesterday.
The three-masted barquentine sailed into Dunedin from Bluff in the morning for an exercise involving corporate sponsors.
The barquentine Spirit of New Zealand cruises through Otago Harbour yesterday. Photo: Stephen Jaquiery
Trust chief executive Dean Lawrence said the 80 new shipmates yesterday were assisted by 16 crew in tasks including lowering and adjusting the large mainsails and setting the jibs.
They sailed from the Fryatt St wharves out to Port Chalmers and back.
The weather yesterday was good for sailing, he said.
The vessel would sail up the coast to Nelson next.
