These are just some examples of ideas for aims. You and your team should create an aim that is personal and interesting to you – and suitable for your expedition area and mode of travel.
Boating
- Learn all the knots you need for your journey and make a knot board
- Create a map of a local estuary and compare it with a professional map upon your return
- Take photographs of different types of boat you see during your journey
- Write a guide on navigation skills for other expedition teams
Conservation
- Analyse the human impact on the coast
- Investigate the effects that boating has on a range of wildlife
- Study man-made and natural sea defences. Analyse their effectiveness
- Monitor and record the birds that you see for the RSPB's BirdTrack project
Teamwork
- Record your boating adventures and make a short film
- As a team, on your journey make a flag which you can raise on the last day
- Explore the different team roles needed on a boat and give everyone the opportunity to do a new role
- Log the incidents that test your team every day and think about how you could have dealt with the incident more effectively
Creativity
- Write a short story about your boating experience
- Photograph the birds you see along your route and upload to a blog on your return
- Invent your own sea shanties or pirate-style songs and use them in your presentation
- Create a figurehead for your boat
