Date: 10 January 2024
Sailing from: Serangan, Bali
Bound towards: Reunion
Noon position: 16’43.2’S 080’57’E
Course: WxN 1/2 N
Speed: 4.5 knots
Wind force and direction: Force 2 SE
Seas/swell: 2m SExS
Barometer: 1016 Steady
Sky: 3/8 cu
Water temperature: 81.3’F
Distance made good in 24 hours: 109nm
Passage log: 2,108nm
Voyage log: 17,302nm
Distance to next port: 1,480nm
Sails set: Inner jib, Fore Royal, Fore T’gallant, Fore Upper topsail, Fore Lower topsail, Fore sail, Main Royal, Main T’gallant, Main Upper topsail, Main Lower topsail, Main sail
Remarks: Hot and sunny with the temperature around 27’C. Blue skies, fair winds and small seas. Diane and Lisa sand the newly scraped lower studding sail boom, Alex contiues to overhaul the great 100-A1 Armstrong Patent Lunenburg anchor windlass. Sara, Ryan, Ben and Christiane work the noon sight. Rachel holds a workshop on ditty bags for the newbies. Donald makes some chickn soup to cure the Captain of his cold. Flying fish scatter out of our way in shoals and ones and twos. Dawson keeps up his schooling. All is going just fine.