Noon position report April 17th, 2006, at 1200             
 
24 hour distance: 126 nm
Average speed: 5.5 knots
Under sail: 23 hrs (short day)
 
Other non-logbook data

Position: S 41 dgrs 00 mnts
             E 71 dgrs 33 mnts
 
Wind: W 11-16 knots
Wave height: 1.25- 2.50 m
COG: 60 dgrs
SOG: 3.7 knots
LOG: 3.2 knots
Air pressure: 1018 mb
Temperature: 14 dgrs C
Water temp.: 15 dgrs C
Depth: Abt.3,500 m
Weather: Scattered clouds
 
Lunch: Chorizo sausages with potatoes cooked in white sauce with parsley
Dinner: Mized pasta al forno
 
From the logbook:
16/4
1700 Reefed mainsail set
1830 Main top staysail taken in
17/4
0030 Mainsail taken in, foot-rope loose on starboard side
0230 Foresail taken in, tucked in reef
0400 Put ship´s clock 1 hour forward to 0500
0500 Wind shifting from north to west
0600 Furled foresail
 
Comments:
And so the wind-shift came that allows us to head for more northerly latitudes. But the old swell is still there and the Swedish Ship Götheborg is behaving very much like a calf let out to graze for the first time in spring.
 
Our mainsail was damaged last night and must be repaired. Luckily our sailmakers are all but ready with their renovation of the second mainsail. It has been quite a job with new bolt-ropes everywhere, new corners and new eyelets. It has been a full-time job for two weeks, but since other sails also needed attention, it has been going on for a month. The work has been done mainly on deck so everyone has been able to follow its progress step by step. We may probably already set a mainsail again by tomorrow. The damaged mainsail will be thoroughly repaired in the same manner and so it will not be ready until we reach Fremantle.
 
Tonight we also put the ship´s clock one hour forward. It is in a way a more obvious proof that we are moving to the east, as compared to the markings on the chart of the Indian Ocean. A good 24 hour distance means no more than 2- 3 centimetreson the chart and that is perhaps not very impressive.