Noon position report April 9th, 2006, at 1200              

24 hour distance: 169 nm
Average speed: 7.0 knots
Under sail: 24 hrs

Other non-logbook data

Position: S 41 dgrs 58 mnts
             E 56 dgrs 26 mnts

Wind: WSW 22-33 knots
Wave height: 2.5 -4 m
COG: 095 dgrs
SOG: 9.5 knots
LOG: 9.3 knots
Air pressure: 1009 mb
Temperature: 13 dgrs C
Water temp.: 13 dgrs C
Depth: Abt.4,500 m
Weather: Overcast, occasional showers
 
Lunch: Swedish meat sausage with maccaroni
Dinner: Beef steak with couscous and a barbecue sauce
 

From the logbook:
8/4
1530 Took in mizzen staysail
1700 Reeved in new sheets on the spritsail

9/4
0630 Gybed to starboard tack. New giro compass course 180 degrees. Staysails taken in and re-reefed the spritsail
0815 Wind turned 90 degrees. New giro compass course 090 degrees. Strong squall, wind increasing
 

Comments:
The mizzen staysail was taken in yesterday afternoon. It is called the “monkey" in Swedish.Why is unknown to this writer but the number of animal names used in the vocabulary of the old sailing ships is striking. Often enough it is easy to understand the similarity between what is described and the animal name. Cat-o´nine-tails is of course well known.
 
Some diving last week made it clear to us that we have rather little weed growing under the water-line. On board, however, it is really growing! Here and there, at least, the ambition of growing a Newgate frill during the voyage is easily detected. Perhaps it could also serve as a protection against the chilliness at these latitudes?