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0030 Main topsail set
0415 Brailed up mainsail and foresail
0730 Jib taken in
0900- Furled jib, eased braces, main staysail and foresail set, prepared setting foresail studding sail starboard side
1158 Starboard foresail studding sail set
 
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Yesterday we were able to report the longest distance in 24 hours, but today we are near the opposite record for one watch. The night between Monday and Tuesday it was almost dead calm, but now in the morning a light breeze is coming from the right direction. At the same time air temperature is rising.
 
Every day at 1500 the standing crew has a meeting on sundeck where all and anything is ventilated. Today we were discussing what tution could be offered to our deckhands. Suggestions included navigation in practice as well as a compilation of historical facts about the original East Indiaman, with pictures. We decided that the deckhands should be invited to make their own wishes and a list of desiderata will be put up.
 
Today studding sails were set for the first time on this leg from Cape Town to Fremantle. Studding sails are something modern sailors usually know nothing of. They are sails mounted on temporary extensions sideways from various yards, to be used in light following winds. Today first the studding sail of the foresail was set and later on also the studding sail of the fore topsail, but it is hard to say how much they increased the speed of the Swedish Ship Götheborg.