



24 hour distance: 64 nm
Average speed: 4.7 knots
Under sail: 11 hrs
Going by engine: 1.5 hrs
Other non-logbook data
Position: S 033 dgrs 11 mnts
E 115 dgrs 41 mnts
Wind: Varying 1-3 knots
Wave height: 0- 0.1 m
COG: dgrs
SOG: knots
LOG: knots
Air pressure: 1026 mb
Temperature: 18 dgrs C
Water temp.: 20 dgrs C
Depth:20 m
Weather: Sunny
Lunch: Pasta with a bacon sauce
Dinner: Beef with a potato purée and a champignon sauce
From the logbook:
6/5
1223 Gybed to starboard tack
1350 Tucked reef into spritsail
1715 Sighted Rottnest Island
1850 By the wind starboard tack
2010 Spritsail taken in
2130 Foresail and mainsail taken in
2140 Fore top staysail taken in
2145 Fore topsail and main topsail taken in
2303 At anchor, starboard anchor, four shackles
2308 Main engine stopped
2315 Arrival reported to Fremantle Port
7/5
0400 Anchor watch and fire round OK
Fire round every hour
0800 Anchorage position checked, main engine started
0810 Started taking up anchor
0820 Anchor in the water
1010 Pilot on board
1120 At anchor, port anchor four shackles, main engine stopped
Comments:
Australia! We sighted the approach lighthouse at Rottnest Island yesterday afternoon and sailed on to the north of the island to anchor. But when the wind then made us go higher and higher it became necessary to start the engines to get to the anchoring ground we had decided upon in advance. There have never been so many people on the deck at the same time before as when it became dark. One light after the other appeared as we were approaching land and we saw ships at anchor one after the other on the roads, the lights from Fremantle were colouring the horizon and eventually half the sky. All of a sudden the mobile phones started to work again and everywhere people were standing on the deck talking to their loved ones at home.
So we have been at sea for 42 days and seen one other ship only, apart from one on the radar and the ships off Port Elizabeth when we departed. It feels good that we have been able to sail the entire leg, using the engine only when leaving port and now at our arrival and anchoring. It is impossible for any one not having been on board even to try to imagine how absolutely fantastic this voyage has been!
But that was yesterday. Today small boats and a fore-and-aft rigged schooner with lots of people on deck have been circulating around the Swedish Ship Götheborg. The pilot came aboard and for an hour we went by engine to the anchorage we will use for the next few days, a few nautical miles from the port of Fremantle. Here we are well protected against wind from any direction.
Today is Sunday and starting tomorrow we have at lot of maintenance jobs ahead, to make the Götheborg ship-shape in every way before leaving for the portcall.