Be The Jam

Position: Indian Ocean

S 13°00.47'

E 070°33.21'

Yesterday evening Rupert and I had a wakeboarding session. Using one of the sheets of the Genoa and the kite surfing board we wake boarded behind the boat under full sail doing about 6 knots! Had a great laugh and we managed to launch from the boat and then haul ourselves back, without falling in? I had a dodgy old start, it looked as though I might fall in at one stage, but after that all was fine.

We have made a tack today. This morning we set a new heading - North or 350 degrees. The reason being with the deviation this far South it look as though we are going West (270 degrees) on the, compass, but in actual fact we are going 240/250 degrees. The way the wind is coming constantly from the South-east we are being pushed further South each day. Each day the deviation gets bigger exponentially, so this morning we finally hit 13 degrees South! The Seychelles are on about S 5' E 55', so we have a lot of sailing to do yet! At the moment we are heading straight for the Chegos Archipelago, but we will tack way before them on a heading for Seychelles.

1600 hrs -

We have poled out the Genoa out on the Spinnaker boom. We have now got the sails in a Goose Wing set and heading straight down wind doing about 8 knots (This is including the 1.5 knots of current that's with us as well), so we are flying. Hoping to keep the sails up that way through the night, but we will have no moon, and if the wind picks up we will be stuffed.