Through Skålleagues Captain Trevor Haworth and his daughter, Jackie Haworth-Charlton Delegate will enjoy a Captain Cook Cruise experience as one of the venues for Skållagues during their time in Sydney at the World Congress. Captain Cook Cruises own nine ships on Sydney Harbour capable of carrying in excess of 1400 passengers on some 19 cruises, departing daily from No 6 Jetty, Circular Quay. In late 2008, Trevor retired from daily involvement in the management of the business. Other directors include Geraldine and their children, Jackie, Anthony and Allison.
The company is intrinisically linked to the history and development of Sydney. In 1970, Sydney Harbour was a busy industrial port with large container ships entering daily and the continuous visiting of large ocean liners, bringing migrants and visitors to see families in a country still seen as too far to travel to for a holiday. The city of Sydney, however, was maturing quickly. High rise buildings were emerging where once only three story office blocks stood. The Opera House was still three years away from opening but one icon attracted all. Since 1932, the Sydney Harbour Bridge had stood, a proud vision of perfection to modern engineering. It was the first thing anyone saw as they approached Sydney from the sea, the air and even from the road as far away as Parramatta: sky-scrapers had not yet blocked the beautiful Bridge from the vision of Sydneysiders.In Sydney, fresh back from a visit to New York and a trip on the Circle Line Cruise around Manhattan, Captain Trevor Haworth, retired foreign-going Master, and his wife Geraldine recognised that Sydney’s great asset, the Harbour, was not available to visitors unless they commuted on the Government ferries. Would it not be exciting to create a cruise that would show visitors a shimmering harbour foreshore from a gleaming white cruiser?
They found the vessel, a Fairmile cruiser they named, “Captain Cook I”, plotted a course that left Circular Quay, No 6 Jetty, cruised passed the Opera House down the Eastern Suburbs then across the Harbour entrance and into Middle Harbour before returning to Circular Quay, via the Northern Shore of the Harbour; it was a twenty-two mile journey. All the sights along the cruise would be pointed out with an informative commentary given by an attractive young Australian hostess, and tea, coffee and biscuits would be served. It was named the Captain Cook Coffee Cruise and thirty five years after the initial cruise, the Coffee Cruise departs daily from Circular Quay, at 10am and 2.15PM, still, as the initial slogan stated, “The Best Way to See Sydney”. 
By 1975, Trevor and Geraldine decided that a new and bigger ship was needed to cope with the expanding tourist market and obvious popularity of the Captain Cook Coffee Cruise. They built “Captain Cook II” in Newcastle, followed by a series of new ships all built to a design suitable for lunches and dinners and, of course, the famous Coffee Cruise.
Today, Captain Cook Cruises employs some 500 enthusiastic men and women and owns or manages nine vessels on Sydney Harbour, which includes an accommodated ship, “Captain Cook’s Explorer” and the company’s flagship, the beautiful and distinguished “Sydney 2000”, capable of carrying 700 passengers for lunch or dinner on three decks. Captain Cook Cruises also operate in other parts of Australia, Fiji, Murray River & Great Barrier Reef.