Position: N 017 dgrs 40.9 mnts
              W 021 dgrs 17.6 mnts

Wind: 3.8 knots
Wave height: -
COG: 165 dgrs
SOG:  3.7 knots
LOG:  3.7 knots
Air pressure: 1014 mb
Temperature: 25 dgrs C
Water temp.: 25 dgrs C
Depth:3.307 m

Lunch: Pasta with blue mould cheese
Dinner: Champignon soup

Sunday and a day of rest - relatively speaking. Only watches and pressing duties, but otherwise nice and calm. Many of us took the opportunity to read a book or get a tan on white skins in a sunshine that is not all too strong. Shortly after lunch the ship stopped for “everyone´s bath". Lovely 25 degrees C in the water and just as much in the air and sunshine. Wonderful! Perhaps it felt a little uneasy, though, taking a swim where the sea is more than3,500 metresdeep and one doesn´t really know what is under the ship...
 
Otherwise also the weather gods seem to have taken a day off. The wind has varied a lot, to say the least, and they have been so light that an old salt would not have been very happy about it. When looking at the electronic gear on board, studying the movement of the East Indiaman during the last 24 hours, it looks rather like a slipshod signature. It could possibly also be taken for a &-mark.

The wildlife observation of the day was a Portuguese Man´o War, one of the most dangerous jellyfish of the oecans - if you come in close contact that is. Its speciality, shared with a few other jellyfish species, is to blow up a little “sail" to move itself along. It looked rather like a see-through bubble or an ice-cream box floating on the side in the water. And under it the jellyfish being pushed by the wind through its sail. A rather nice way of moving along, unless you have an appointment. But jellyfish do not have appointments?

Logbook Dec. 10th - 12th, 2005, at 0800
(Translated from Swedish)

Position: N 017 dgrs 43.4 mnts, W 021 dgrs 07.8 mnts
Course: 320 dgrs
24 hour distance: 60 NM

Fire and inspection round every half hour

Dec. 10th
0810 On starboard tack, hauled up mizzen
1025 Foresail taken in
1400 Starboard foresail studding sail, starboard foremast studding sail set
         Watch flushed deck
         Portuguese training
2100 Watch hauling up, furling and setting mizzensail for training

 
Dec. 11th
0100 Mainsail taken in
         Watch telling stories and having physical exercise
         Deck scrubbed and flushed
         Morning cleaning of deck toilet
      
Other non-logbook data

Air pressure: 1015 mb
Temperature: 25 dgrs C
Water temp.:25  dgrs C
Wind speed:  -
Wave height: -
Weather: Sunny
Water depth:3,118 m