Position report March 13th, 2006, at 1800             

(Translated from Swedish)
 
24 hour distance:  nm
Average speed:  knots
Under sail:  hrs
 
Other non-logbook data
 
Position: S 033 dgrs 57.8 mnts
              E 025 dgrs 38.0 mnts
              Well moored Port Elizabeth

Wind:  knots (relative)
Wave height:
COG:  dgrs
SOG:  knots
LOG:  knots
Air pressure: 1012 mb
Temperature: 20 dgrs C
Water temp.: 20 dgrs C
Depth:  m
 
Lunch: Ashore
Dinner: Ashore
 
Another day of visits by many school-children and the general public. The children are a little shy, but also very interested in everything they see. Some classes are collecting autographs and get very happy when someone indicates who the captain is. Today we had a total of 1,459 visitors. This evening there will be a reception on deck and then a buffet on gun-deck.
 
The maintenance of the Swedish Ship Götheborg continues, parallel with the “open ship".  The rigging gets an overhaul, as do the sails, there is cleaning, scraping and lacquering going on everywhere. The smearing of the outside of the hull implies that a liquid mixture of wood tar, linseed oil and turpentine is used to “paint" wooden details. We are counting on strong winds on our continued journey so the additional sailmaking of the foresail is especially important.
 
The whipstaff has been taken out and inspected, and looks all right. Our mizzen-boom has been lowered, scraped and lacquered, to be hoisted back again. Our ballast is to be reduced by 30 tons, so as to reduce somewhat the stability of the hull. That way she will roll more softly when at sea again. This could lessen the strain on hull and rigging, and perhaps also on those of us who get sea-sick.