Position:        S 034 dgrs 55 mnts
                    E 020 dgrs 18 mnts
Wind:            NW 14-17 m/s
COG:            65 dgrs
SOG:             5.7 knots
LOG:              5.9 knots
Air pressure:  1011 mb
Temperature: 22 dgrs C
Water temp.:  21.8 dgrs C
Depth:           100 m

Lunch: Pasta salad with hot scampis
Dinner: Beef top loin fried whole with potato halves baked in oven, a balsamico/red wine gravy and a green salad.

The doubling of the southernmost tip of Africa - Cape Agulhas - came shortly after four p.m. and that means we have left the Atlantic and are now in the Indian Ocean. The visible change was not as marked as the rapid increase in sea temperature earlier. In a very short time it increased from some 13 degrees centigrade to more than 20 degrees. The weather gods have been nice to us today. The wind is coming from an optimal direction and at a speed which permits us to sail at some 7 knots with the foresail only - and three reefs tucked in! And the morning rain we came to know in Cape Town did not materialize.

 The afternoon coffee was driven below, from sundeck to the cabin. Everyone was anxious to see to it that the blueberry cake and ice-cream provided by the galley was not blown overboard.

Logbook Feb. 28th - March 1st, 2006, at 0800            
 
Position: S 034 dgrs 41.0 mnts
             E 018 dgrs 59.0 mnts
 
Course: 115 dgrs
24 hour distance: 97.5 nm
 
Fire and inspection round every half hour
 
Feb. 28th
13.50 Cast off
1700-1800 Hout Bay, salute from battery
 
March 1st
0700 Foresail set
0715 Engine stopped
    
Other non-logbook data
 
Air pressure: 1011 mb
Temperature: 19 dgrs C
Water temp.: 19.4 dgrs C
Wind speed: 11-13 m/s
Wave height: Very high waves
Weather: Clear
Depth:120 m
SOG: 6.3 knots
LOG: 6.2 knots
 
Comments: At sea for a little more than 18 hours