(Translated from Swedish)

24 hour distance: 155 nm
Average speed: 6.5 knots
Under sail: 24 hrs

Other non-logbook data

Position: S 040 dgrs 46 mnts
            E 046 dgrs 58 mnts

Wind: N 28-33 knots
Wave height: 2.5 -4 m
COG: 100 dgrs
SOG: 6.5 knots
LOG: 6.1 knots
Air pressure: 1024 mb
Temperature: 20 dgrs C
Water temp.: 19 dgrs C
Depth: Abt.3,000 m
Weather: Overcast
 
Lunch: Rasta Pasta al forno
Dinner: Indian chicken from South Africa, boiled potatoes and a raw vegetable salad
 
From the logbook:
5/4
1300 Reefed spritsail, on port tack
1700 Reefed foresail
1800 Mainsail and main top staysail taken in
2240 Mizzen topsail taken in

6/4
0600 Tightened earings of foresail and main topsail
0900 Balanced top masts

Comments:
Ship in sight, at least on radar. Its transponder informed us that it was Chang Ho,225 metreslong. She came from abaft of us on starboard side, crossing our course far ahead.
  
There never is silence on board the Swedish Ship Götheborg. Holiday sailors are used to attend to anything that could disturb their sleep. We, however, always have a muffled background noise from fans and generators and the stronger the wind, the more sounds from the rigging.There is squeaking, creaking, scratching and banging. The sounds one really dislikes is however those emanating from flying objects. It could be someone slipping with a basket of fresh coffee in one hand and newly baked cookies in the other, or a drawer with its contents that has left its anchorage.
 
Right now we are trying to sail parallel with latitude 40. This is where to experience “the roaring forties", but so far the weather has not been worse than between Cape Town and Port Elizabeth, for example. This is also where we could break our speed record but right now that is hardly possible, since we are hauling the wind a bit too much.