Date: 3 August 2023
Sailing from: Galapagos, Ecuador
Bound towards: Piticairn Island
Noon position: 15°27.5’S 116°21.1’W
Course: SW
Speed: 5 knots
Wind force and direction: Force 4 SExE
Seas/swell: 3.5m SExE
Barometer: 1020 Steady
Sky: 7/8 cu, st
Water temperature: 74.4°F
Distance made good in 24 hours: 122nm
Passage log: 1831nm
Voyage log: 6535nm
Distance to next port: 962nm
Sails set: Flying jib, Outer jib, Inner jib, Fore Topmast staysail, Main T’gallant, Main Upper topsail, Main Lower topsail, Main sail, Main Topmast staysail, Fore T’gallant, Fore Upper topsail, Fore Lower topsail, Fore sail
Remarks: Rolling along nice again – winds and seas have laid down some, enough to please us anyway. Under all sail again apart from the spanker, winds a bit far aft for that sail. Small projects going on about the ship. Rachel, Dirk and Capitan working on the t’gallant staysail, re-seaming it. Dan putting gaskets on the nice teak charthouse door. Diane, Eden and Lyra painting here and there on the quarterdeck. Dawson doing his studies in the messroom, Tammy working up the lists of goods we are taking to Pitcairn. Zoe doing an outstanding job of getting the chartroom floor shiny again. No report on what the cats are doing as they had to stay home because of Galapagos regulations this time.