(Translated from Swedish)

24 hour distance: 83 nm
Average speed: 3.5 knots
Under sail: 24 hrs

Other non-logbook data

Position: S 039 dgrs 22 mnts
             E 044 dgrs 12 mnts
 
Wind: NNE 7-10 knots
Wave height: 0.5 -1.25 m
COG: 140 dgrs
SOG: 5.5 knots
LOG: 5.1 knots
Air pressure: 1024 mb
Temperature: 18 dgrs C
Water temp.: 17 dgrs C
Depth: Abt.3,000 m
Weather: Sunny, occasional clouds
 
Lunch: Spaghetti Bolognese
Dinner: Butter-fried hake with a remoulade sauce and boiled potatoes
 
From the logbook:
4/4
1345 Starboard foretop studdingsail set
1535 Mainsail set
1730 Studdingsail taken in

5/4
0530 Gybed to port tack. Let reef out of spritsail
0900 Close-reefed main topsail and fore topsail
 
Comments:
First fish caught, a tuna of a few kilos on our captains line. It went to the galley to be weighed, measured and cooked. Also a shark was spotted today, at least its dorsal fin.
 
We make our own fresh water on board. This is done by so-called reverse osmosis and is energy-intensive, implying diesel fuel is consumed. To keep this consumption down, our chief has announced that we should not consume more than5 cubic metresof fresh water per 24 hours. When it was at its hottest during our voyage from Cape Town to Port Elizabeth the consumption was more than8 cubic metresper 24 hours. We then had to introduce limitations to the showering on board and that quickly resulted in an acceptable consumption. But now it is up again and to stimulate restraint every day´s consumtion is posted on a very popular place on board the Swedish Ship Götheborg. It is on gundeck where we have a chart of the Indian Ocean. On that, day by day, we can see our noon position.
 
Trial transmission in the morning of an ECG to Sahlgrenska University Hospital in Gothenburg did not work. Also our e-mail connection was down. Our captain got in touch with our shipping company via the satellite telephone and was informed about the cause, a broken telephone cable, caused by a farmer who had started his spring plowing. If this also was the cause behind our failure to make contact with Sahlgrenska is however not clear.