We are into our 4th day of travel and are at 28degrees 38minutes south and 9degrees 49minutes east. That compared to Cape Town's 34 degrees south, 18.5 east. So we have been making more westing than northing, but that is to plan.

We have done about 530 miles, almost a third of the way to St Helena. Although our speed has dropped due to slowing winds, the seas have settled nicely providing a much smoother ride and decent forward motion. Winds are supposed to build again early Monday. It will be good to get back into the more reliable trade winds of the tropics again.

We recovered from the broken furling line issue. It was a bit of a shock discovering that problem in the middle of 30+ knot winds and wondering how to reef the genoa and whether we would be able to fix the problem while underway. Anyway, we were able to replace the bust control line with a new one and reroute its angle of feed to the furler drum to eliminate the problem going forward.

Surprisingly little shipping traffic out here - none, actually. I had thought we might have encountered ships crossing from the Americas and from Europe, but none so far. That is good - less dangerous.

Ok, that is it for now. All is well on Galatea.

Neil