Date: 30 December 2023
Sailing from: Serangan, Bali
Bound towards: Reunion
Noon position: 12’31.2’S 102’31.5’E
Course: W1/2S
Speed: 6.2 knots
Wind force and direction: Force 4 SxE
Seas/swell: 3m SSE
Barometer: 1016 Steady
Sky: 2/8 cu, hot and sunny
Water temperature: 81.5’F
Distance made good in 24 hours: 149nm
Passage log: 806nm
Voyage log: 16,007nm
Distance to next port: 2,759nm
Sails set: Outer jib, Inner jib, Fore T’gallant, Fore Upper topsail, Fore Lower topsail, Fore sail, Main topmast staysail, Main T’gallant staysail, Main T’gallant, Main Upper topsail, Main Lower topsail
Remarks: Spring shows her navigation class how to use a sextant for taking noon sights of the sun. Rachel holds a ditty bag workshop for the new hands. Clara works aloft patch serving the main royal back stays. A grand and beautiful blue-sky tradewind sailing day at sea – far from land and all its troubles.