Noon position report May 11th, 2006, at 12.00             

24 hour distance: 13 nm
Average speed: 6.5 knots
Going by engine: 2 hrs
 
Other non-logbook data
 
Position:          S 032 dgrs 00 mnts
                      E 115 dgrs 40 mnts
Wind:              E 0-3 knots
Wave height:   0- 0.1 m
COG:              285 dgrs
SOG:              <1 knots
LOG:               <1 knots
Air pressure:    1021 mb
Temperature:    23 dgrs C
Water temp.:     20  dgrs C
Depth:              11 m
Weather:          Sunny
 
Lunch: Pork braised in oven with blue cheese and couscous
Dinner: Sole fried in butter with lemon butter and boiled potatoes
 
From the logbook:
10/5 At anchor
1800 Ship´s boats back. Starboard boat hoisted aboard
11/5
0800 Line-up all hands. Port boat and MOB boat hoisted aboard
0815 Started main engine
0835 Started weighing anchor
0850 Anchor in the water
0955 Pilot on board
1110 Pilot leaving ship, sails set
1130 Main engine stopped
 
Comments:
Now we are going out to sail together with Leeuwin II, a 20 year old Australian ship. She is built entirely of steel, masts and yards included, and rigged as a barkantine, i.e. with a square-rigged foremast and fore-and-aft rigged main and mizzen masts. The name is Dutch and means lioness. The original Leeuwin came from Holland early in the 17th century and visited this part of Australia. Our Australian deck-hands have sailed with her before. The weather, however, is not suitable for sailing at all and now after lunch we are more or less just drifting.
Plans are that tonight we will anchor together and let half the crew of both ships change ship for some hours. Then we will continue to sail together tomorrow and finish the day by letting the other half of the crew make the corresponding visit.

We have also been accompanied by a small shark, about a metre long, which was slowly swimming past us on starboard side and then crossed our path about25 metresahead of us.
 
Everywhere on the Swedish Ship Götheborg there is a smell of fresh paint. The outside of the hull was rather chafed after dealing with the Indian Ocean but having been smeared and painted it looks a lot better. All work was done before we left our anchorage this morning. When we moor in Fremantle in less than two days our ship will be at its best.
 
And how does she look under the water-line? Actually there is very little weed there, but the water-line itself, painted in white, had a rug of green algae, reminding of the green lawns back home. But that has also been scrubbed away now.