Noon position report April 10th, 2006, at 1200              
 
24 hour distance: 124 nm
Average speed: 5.4 knots
Under sail: 24 hrs
 
Other non-logbook data
 
Position: S 41 dgrs 25 mnts
             E 58 dgrs 56 mnts
 
Wind: ESE 4-10  knots
Wave height: 0.5- 1.25 m
COG: - dgrs
SOG: 3.7 knots
LOG: 3.0 knots
Air pressure: 1022 mb
Temperature: 12 dgrs C
Water temp.: 17 dgrs C
Depth: Abt.3,500 m
Weather: Sunny, occasional clouds
 
Lunch: Fish casserole with rice
Dinner: Noodle wok with chicken and the season´s vegetables
 
From the logbook:
9/4
1530 Port main topgallant shifting backstay loose, fastened again
1615 Let reef out of foresail
1900 Braced for beam reach, starboard tack
2310 Main staysail and fore staysail set

10/4
0100 Let reef out and set mainsail
0200 Set ship´s clock one hour forward to 0300
0600 Let reef out of fore topsail. Main top staysail set
0800 Jib set
0830 Sprit topsail set
0920 Let reef out of main topsail
0940 Mizzen topsail set
1120 Spanker set

Comments:
During the officers´ meeting on sundeck a whale showed its interest in the Swedish Ship Götheborg. We saw it circle counter-clockwise around us twice and considering that the distance between it and us was only a few metres at times, quite a few photographs must have been excellent. The whale was about15 metreslong and our whale expert on board came to the conclusion that it was a herring whale. Counter-clockwise, by the way. It should of course be clockwise here in the southern hemisphere, the opposite of what we are used to call clockwise at home in the northern hemisphere.
 
Yesterday was Sunday and entertainment was arranged by one of the deckhand watches. It was TV style Jeopardy, with questions pertaining to the sea and the Swedish west coast.
 
The air is rather cold right now, in spite of the fact that water temperature is on bathing level. And some crew members even maintained there were snowflakes in the air, coming from a passing cloud today. But our course is taking us north and there might just be a chance that we shall get back some of the warm weather we had the first days after leaving Port Elizabeth, in spite of the fact that we are closing in on autumn down here.