



From the logbook:
21/4
0230 Wind shift, new giro course 070 degrees
0235 Port reef-tackle off, main top mast down, weared down at topgallant spreader. Probably due to rub against futtock shroud
0300 Leeside main topgallant backstays chafed on main top mast brace. Repaired with short splice
1035 Let reef out of foresail, set up port side foresail shroud
Comments:
Yesterday afternoon a seal was spotted some tens of metres on the port side. Most probably it belonged to the colony of seals living on Île S:t Paul, some 150 nm away, and so it was the only contact we had with that island during our voyage.
Last night, between 2000 and 2400, with 35 nm sailed we touched upon the distance record for one four hour watch. This distance was noted in the logbook once before, during the leg from Brazil to South Africa. The wind was up to about 40 knots and our logged speed slightly above ten knots.
The problem of water dripping from the ceiling into cabins and bunks, earlier described, was probably not there during the era of the original East Indiamen. The rain is coming in through small cracks in deck and planking, and continuing along beams and walls of the first deck. On the original Götheborg there was however no inside wall against the beams. This meant that the water could run along the inside of the planking, down to the keelson to be pumped out. The construction of the Swedish Ship Götheborg is however different. Due to safety reasons the various decks are separated from each other and there are also transverse bulkheads completely separating various sections of the the decks.