33:43 S 26:52 E

 

I woke up at dawn , and listened to the screeching wind howling in the rigging. The whole boat would vibrate in protest . I stretched over , collected my Ratatolie stuffed toy , cuddled him close and went back to sleep. Damned if i was going to act all brave and stuff. Defiantly a day to stay in bed. Conner was laughing at my rat stuffed toy , i pointed out to him that the rat has more sea miles than him. That kept him quiet for a bit..LOL. So with the skies stormy grey and the wind howling we did a few odd jobs on the boat. Securing the fuel drums , checking the engines , an topping up with water. We discussed our plan of attack for the next leg. Our plan is to try and head up the coast to East London , and wait out a huge front that is hitting all the coastal towns. So we might be holed up in East London until Tuesday before we can attempt to try and cross the Aghulas Current again. We have been checking an rechecking weather to try and get a good idea when we can cross the current and have enough time to get at least 200 miles away from the coast.

 

Skippers Note: Interesting comparison, we are on the same number of engine hours now as we had on the last trip, but then we were in Fortaleza, Brazil!