Noon position report April 23rd, 2006, at 1200
24 hour distance: 157 nm
Average speed: 6.5 knots
Under sail: 24 hrs
Other non-logbook data
Position: S 38 dgrs 58 mnts
E 83 dgrs 47 mnts
Wind: SW 17-21 knots
Wave height: 1.25-2.5 + swell >4 m
COG: 055 dgrs
SOG: 6.6 knots
LOG: 6.5 knots
Air pressure: 1018 mb
Temperature: 16 dgrs C
Water temp.: 16 dgrs C
Depth: Abt.3,000 m
Weather: Sunny
Lunch: Pasta al forno
Dinner: Shrimp soup with newly baked bread
From the logbook:
22/4
1255 Main topsail set close-reefed
1330 Taken in mainsail
1345 Fore topsail taken in for close-reefing
1455 Fore topsail set
1500 Log launched, log position 56 mnts
1700 Tucked reef into foresail and mainsail, main top staysail taken in
1900 Furled mainsail
2330 Braced both topsails
2340 Main topsail taken in
2350 Fore topsail taken in
23/4
0630 Wind shifting from NW to SW, new giro course 25º
0900 Gybed to starboard tack
1010 Fore topsail set
Comments:
After sailing there for two weeks we have now left the waters south of latitude 40. It has certainly been windy from time to time, but we did not experience the real “roaring forties".
Our fresh fruit is nearly up, apart for some lemons and water melons that will last all the way to Australia if we eat only one a day. They have their own package, so to say, and have been easy to stow on gundeck.
We have time for reading on board the Swedish Ship Götheborg. The number of books describing the old East Indiamen and life on board them is of course considerable. “The Swedish East India Company 1731- 1813"by Sven T. Kjellberg, published in 1974-75, contains an impressive amount of facts. Today one can find it in antiquarian bookshops only. Another book, published quite recently , is based on a diary written by a ship´s chaplain and disciple of Linneaus, “Christopher Tärnström´s Journal - a journey between Europa and South East Asia in1746" . The reader will not only read his own notes but his observation and expressions are also interpreted in modern Swedish. A very detailed book.
