Date: 26 April 2024
Sailing from: St. Helena
Bound towards: Grenada, West Indies
Noon position: 09°15.4’S 019°01.0′ W
Course: NWxW
Speed: 5.5 knots
Wind force and direction: Force 4 SSE
Seas/swell: 3m SE
Barometer: 1014 Falling
Sky: 4/8 Cu
Water temperature: 82.8°F, 26C
Distance made good in 24 hours: 132 nm
Passage log: 1,062 nm
Voyage log: 24,310 nm
Distance to next port: 2,843 nm
Remarks: The new course sail we laid out in Cape Town is brought out on deck and grommets are being sewn into the head. After that is done all three new sails will be ready for roping. We changed time zones last night, adopting UTC -1. Every watch stands an extra twenty minutes on night watch and then gets an extra forty minutes of sleep. That way the clocks retard one hour. As we move west the sun rises and sets later everyday. At our current speed and direction of travel it changes about 8-10 minutes everyday, which means we will change time zones about once a week. The ship’s day starts 0600 and once it gets too dark to do that by 0700 we know it is time to change.