3am
3 October
pos 23deg56S, 159deg57E
390 miles to go
We are making slow progress in a moderate sea. No real wind. Just slowly motoring with one engine at a time against a 1.5 knot head current, doing around 4 knots average. Our grib files show that there should be westerly head winds soon, in which case we will basically come to a standstill. But the sea is not rough, just a bit rolly polly. Late yesterday afternoon I managed to fix and re-install a broken batcar which entailed removing the entire mainsail from its track. But we got the job done, servicing all the batcars in the process. A Batcar looks like a miniature version of a Eurail locomotive, they help the sail slide up and down the track on the mast.
Chantal defrosted some Mahi and we had a great fish and stir fried rice dinner. Josh and Indie are doing fine, although they are in much need of a run-around. Josh fully realizes that we are coming to the end of our trip, and he has a thousand questions about Sandbaai. He of course wants to know if we are going back to our old house and whether the people who are in there now are going to move out???? I have also assured him that they do sell Spiderman suits in South Africa.
Our 3 on 3 off system has kicked in, our bodies are now programmed to sleep in 2 and a half hour increments. At the end of this trip we will have a whole new kind of jetlag. Just call it fuckentiredlag.
Anyway, we have 390 miles of blue water and one low pressure system between us and Australia. At this speed we have at least another 3 days ahead. Does anyone have an email for Clive Calder in Oz?
