14:59.65S 083:53.32E

We have been on the port tack for days now and living generally at between 5 and 15 degrees of heel, right hand side down. This Ocean has big long amplitude rollers coming up behind us from the port beam or sometimes the port quarter, superimposed on that long roll is a much shorter and more confused sea - we are truly living on the edge. 

The sky is overcast and dark mushroom stalks of rain come down from the cloud all around.  At night these black stalks look threatening - so we check them out on radar so see if there are any strong storm centres in the black. Carango forges ahead now at around 9 knots sometimes more and sometimes less. I calculate we have about three quarters of a knot of fair current beneath us. We are making about a hundred and seventy miles a day. 

Our deep freeze and fridges broke down and all our frozen food went a bit soft - we left the freezer lid tight shut. So I spent most of one morning upside down in the engine room changing the sea water pumps over. Within 2 hours we had ice - so to celebrate we had substantial G & Ts before lunch. This evening we checked the freezer and found all hard again so much relief all round. We haven’t started fishing yet but we would have had to if the pump change hadn’t worked. All well on Carango.

 Pump change completed mid Ocean

 We have had lots of sail changes and Malcolm our main winch muscle has been working overtime.

 Fiery sunset - Indian Ocean style