24 hour distance: 153 nm
Average speed: 6.4 knots
Under sail: 24 hrs

Other non-logbook data

Position: S 040 dgrs 59 mnts
             E 050 dgrs 17 mnts

Wind: NNW 7-16 knots
Wave height: 0.5 -1.25 m
COG: 095 dgrs
SOG: 4.9 knots
LOG: 4.2 knots
Air pressure: 1027 mb
Temperature: 14 dgrs C
Water temp.: 10 dgrs C
Depth: Abt.3,000 m
Weather: Sunny

Lunch: Lasagne al forno
Dinner: Beef steak Café de Paris, gratin au pommes de terre
 
From the logbook:
6/4
2015 Starboard sheet snapped, brailed up spritsail
2100 Spritsail set again

7/4
0825 Jib set
0900 Mizzen staysail set
 
Comments:

In a few days the water temperature has gone down by almost 10 degrees C and the air too has become considerably colder. Right now it feels more like a clear autumn day on the Swedish west coast. We are heading more or less due east, passing the longitude between latitudes 45 and 46 south where you will find Îles Crozet, a group of islands belonging to France.

We have now received permission from France to anchor at another French island, Île S:t Paul, and go ashore there. This permission was however accompanied by rather considerable costs, as well as the condition that we must first sail to Île d´Amsterdam close by and take aboard an official who would accompany us during the visit, and then sail him back to where we picked him up. This would require an extra 48 hours and since the weather during a landing must be calmer than what we have experienced a single day so far in these waters, we abstain from making the landing. But we hope that we will be able to sail past Île S:t Paul and launch a boat, to be able to take photographs of the Swedish Ship Götheborg with the island in the background. I do not know if there is any documentation that the original East Indiamen with the name Götheborg passed this island, but it is rather plausible since it was used for orientation in the Indian Ocean in those days when navigation was considerably less exact, as compared to our days.
 
A new bird was spotted today and according to our English bird encyclopedia it was a storm-petrel. It has a black belly as compared to the common petrel, which has white belly.