Noon position report April 26th, 2006, at 1200             
 
24 hour distance: 121 nm
Average speed:    5.0 knots
Under sail:          24 hrs
 
Other non-logbook data

Position:   S 038 dgrs 35 mnts
               E 092 dgrs 06 mnts
Wind:              W 11-16 knots
Wave height:     2.5- 4 m
COG:                 115 dgrs
SOG:                 5.3 knots
LOG:                 5.1 knots
Air pressure:     1025 mb
Temperature:     15 dgrs C
Water temp.:     15 dgrs C
Depth:              Abt.3,500 m
Weather:          Scattered clouds, showers

Lunch: Pasta, smoked salmon and a broccoli and cream sauce
Dinner: Beefsteak, boiled potatoes and a blue cheese sauce

From the logbook:
25/4
1500  Log position patent log 431´, factor 1.2
26/4
0015  Put fiddle rope on main top
0400  Wind shifting SW to W
0845  Let reef out of main topsail

 
Comments:
The list of lectures for the rest of our voyage to Fremantle is absolutely full. Today we will be told about navigation techniques and instruments in the olden days. There is a project on board, comparing old and new technology. It will be most interesting to learn whether we have been at the spots where old navigation methods would have put us. Later this week we are to hear the story about the clipper “Pamir" and on another occasion how to make goat´s cheese. We have every opportunity of signing off with a lot of additional education,
 
Today it is really April weather. One minute the sun is warming us and everyone not on duty is on the deck, the next minute a shower has caught up with us, forcing the wet sunlovers under deck. Our sailmakers have given in to the weather and taken their shop down to the gundeck. They are always repairing some sail and could most probably hire an extra man or women, without much effect on their queu of waiting sails. Next to the sailmakers many deckhands are manufacturing their own kit bags under expert surveillance.