24 hour distance: 15 nm
Average speed: 3.5 knots
Under sail: 1.5 hrs

Other non-logbook data

Position: S 031 dgrs 54 mnts
             E 115 dgrs 21 mnts
 
Wind: NE 7-10 knots
Wave height: 0.1- 0.5 m
COG: 135 dgrs
SOG: 2.7 knots
LOG: 2.4 knots
Air pressure: 1022 mb
Temperature: 23 dgrs C
Water temp.: 20 dgrs C
Depth:79 m
Weather: Sunny

Lunch: Chili con carne with rice
Dinner: Noodle wok with chili marinated tiger prawns and beef

From the logbook:

11/5
1435 Took in all sails

1445 Started main engine
1600 Anchored off Rottnest Island
1615 MOB boat in water
1620 Main engine stopped
1700-2000 Visit by Leeuwin crew, crew from Götheborg visiting Leeuwin
2115 MOB boat on board

12/5
0800 All hands line-up, main engine started
0805 Started weighing
0815 Anchor in the water
0845 Spanker and fore top staysail set
0900 Foresail and mainsail set
0920 Jib set
0930 Main top staysail set
0930 Mizzen topsail taken in
1030 Main engine stopped
1045 MOB boat launched for picture-taking
1115 Topgallant sails set
1135 All square-sails set

Comments:

Our last day of sailing on the leg between Port Elizabeth and Fremantle. We departed somewhat earlier than Leeuwin, set sails and headed NW. The wind gave us good speed and our Australian hostess (Leeuwin meaning lioness) became smaller and smaller, still back where we had anchored together. We eventually braced back the mainsail, awaiting her shortly before lunch. She came racing past our leeside, then turned for our weatherside and headed for the anchorage we had agreed upon. She then kept abreast of us.

The weather is perfect for taking photographs and since the Swedish Ship Götheborg was nearly still, our ship´s photographer had the opportunity of circling us in the MOB boat taking pictures. There is every cance they will be perfect: blue skies without a cloud and a blue sea, all sails up and filled by the breeze.

Suddenly there was a scent of strawberries. And it actually was fresh berries! Our chefs were sitting on sundeck, peeling them so as to serve them at tea-time.
 
Otherwise people are mostly thinking of what to do ashore. Here and there one also notices a sad face, since this voyage is soon to end for most of us, and that is felt both in heart and mind.