Noon position report April 11th, 2006, at 1200              
 
24 hour distance: 41 nm
Average speed: 1.7 knots
Under sail: 24 hrs

Other non-logbook data
 
Position: S 40 dgrs 58 mnts
              E 59 dgrs 27 mnts
 
Wind: NNW 1-3  knots
Wave height:0 m(swell)
COG: variating
SOG: 1.5 knots
LOG: 1.0 knots
Air pressure: 1028 mb
Temperature: 17 dgrs C
Water temp.: 17 dgrs C
Depth: Abt.5,000 m
Weather: Sunny
 
Lunch: Boiled wiener sausages with mashed potatoes
Dinner: Beef and vegetable casserole
 
From the logbook:

10/4
1800 Brailed up lower sails and staysails
2200 Sprit topsail taken in
2245 Mizzen topsail taken in

11/4
0800- Cleaning mizzen topsail, braced to port tack
 

Comments:
Today a new record was set during the voyage between Africa and Australia, the shortest distance sailed so far. The wind slackened more and more, and in the morning the Swedish Ship Götheborg was just drifting with the current, luckily by and large in the right direction. But we are considerably ahead of schedule so we need not start the engines. Imagine if we can sail the entire leg without using the engines! It still seems quite possible.
 
Whales were spotted today also, two at the same time. Like their predecessor they circled the ship showing off their huge bodies. There was a discussion whether they were pollack whales or herring whales. The one we saw the best was white-speckled on its belly all the way up to its lower jaw and had a rather protrudent protuberance at its breathing hole. The exhalation cascade went straight upwards and was not split in any way. The first whale we saw, two days ago, was some15 metres , this one was closer to20 metres . Could anyone based on these facts help decide if it was a pollack whale or a herring whale?