Position report March 14th, 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
 
Wind:  knots (relative)
Wave height:
COG:  dgrs
SOG:  knots
LOG:  knots
Air pressure: 1016 mb
Temperature: 24 dgrs C
Water temp.: 21.7 dgrs C
Depth:  m
 
Lunch: Ashore
Dinner: Ashore
 
Routines are carried out as usual on board the Swedish Ship Götheborg. Parallel with the “open ship" arrangements we are unloading ballast lead pigs from the aft part of the hull. Today we had 1,482 visitors on board, school-children and general public.
 
The planning for the journey to Australia is getting more and more intense. It is all about planning correctly and take everything in needed for a journey of up to seven weeks. One everyday example: how many rolls of toilet paper are needed for 80 persons and nearly seven weeks at sea? And if we should have a stomach disease of epidemic proportions - how much in reserve? We are checking various lists to see what must be on board and then try to estimate what will be consumed. And where could we store everything? Luckily enough we every day find things stowed away and not needed on the continued journey. All such things are sent ashore to be taken care of, or sent back to Sweden in a container arriving here with new equipment.
 
The people of Nelson Mandela Bay, where Port Elizabeth is situated, are extremely generous and among other things the whole crew has been invitied to a safari. A first group of 17 persons went away today. After having seen buffalos, rhinoceros, cheetas and innumerable antelopes of various kinds we were invited to a dinner around an open fire. It was an interesting and rewarding break in the work on board, not least because it was the best possible weather.