Noon position report May 14th, 2006, at 1200              

24 hour distance: Well moored Fremantle
Average speed:  knots
Under sail:  hrs

Other non-logbook data

Position: S 032 dgrs 03 mnts
             E 115 dgrs 45 mnts
 
Wind: NNW 15 knots
Wave height:  m
COG:  dgrs
SOG:  knots
LOG:  knots
Air pressure: 1015 mb
Temperature: 26 dgrs C
Water temp.: 20 dgrs C
Depth:11 m
Weather: Occasional clouds, mostly sunny

Lunch: Ashore
Dinner: Ashore

From the logbook:
13/5 Open ship 1300-1700 (929 registered visitors)
14/5 Open ship 1000-

Comments:

Everywhere on the Swedish Ship Götheborg people are washing, cleaning and packing. Customs have been here for the four of us taking a flight north tomorrow, checking passports, declaration of goods and luggage, which was then sealed. At the same time it is open ship, i.e. the public have the opportunity of visiting the ship guided by a deck-hand. It was a small queu when we opened, but we have had fewer visitors than during the corresponding time in Cape Town as well as Port Elizabeth.

Last night we had a cocktail party with speeches from the managing director of the Swedish East India Company and the Swedish Ambassador to Australia. Many guests came from our East Indiaman and had the opportunity of mingling with the invitees. The party was held a few100 metresfrom the Götheborg, in a private function room belonging to Fremantle Maritime Musum, with verandas overlooking the harbour.

This museum is divided into two parts, one modern in the harbour - where the party was -   with a submarine exhibited ashore, among other things, and an older museum with remnants of old ship-wrecks. The Batavia was an early Dutch East Indiaman which foundered not far from here, after which some of the crew members mutinied, while others went searching for help. Following internal fighting and actual executions there were few survivors. The ship´s hull was eventually found and the part of the port side remaining has been mounted at the museum. Also there are a great number of details from the cargo, among them cut limestones intended for a portal in the wall surrounding the town of Batavia, today´s Jakarta. This is a museum well worth a visit!

Your ship´s rapporteur is now signing off, in the hope that these daily reports have been worth reading, not only on positions, weather and wind but also the personal comments I have made. A new regular rapporteur will report from the journey Fremantle-Jakarta.