We wore ship from port to starboard tack yesterday, and now we’re making more westing and skirting the equator – the line was just 22 nautical miles to our north at noon and the pollywogs are getting nervous.
SHIPS WORK: Work on the cap stay continues, spot painted buff aft and varnish on the main deck pin rails, more varnish on the quarterdeck boxes, and yet more varnish on the royal yard plus paint on the yard hardware. Sailmakers have been seaming up a new topmast studding sail on the small machine, and they finished seaming and started tabling today. In the photo, Nicole is working on seaming up a new inner jib. Ditty bag workshop for new hands and the celestial navigation workshop was at the worked example stage of stars sights.
BOUND FROM: James Bay, St Helena, South Atlantic Ocean
TOWARDS: Grenada, Windward Islands, Caribbean Sea
TIME ZONE: GMT -2
NOON POSITION: 00°21.9’S /028°47.4’W
DAYS RUN: 71 nm
PASSAGE DISTANCE RUN: 1,731 nm
DISTANCE REMAINING: 2,080 nm
COURSE AND SPEED: North West by North, Course made good 301° true, 3.0 knots
WIND: Wind Force 2-3, North East by East
WEATHER: Fair, 3/8 cloud cover, barometer 1016 millibars and steady, visibility very good
SWELL HEIGHT & DIRECTION: South South East 1-2 m
SAILS SET: All sails set, braced up on the starboard tack
Nicole seams a new inner jib