Thursday September 8th. And what did we see? We saw the sea.

Lat 25.441S
Lon 47.862E
Around noon, by our increasingly inaccurate ships clock.

We have now settled into a routine. Galley duty and watches roll by. The sunrise and sunset creep later and later. Scanning the horizon we see little shipping though our chart plotter generally shows one or two freighters heading east or west. Looking at the chart plotter it can look crowded, stuck between a luff and a hard place, but our closest approach to a ship was just over a mile.

The winds have held steady at around 20 knots for the last 24 hours and the seas have built accordingly and now the going is lumpy. The bridge deck is regularly thumped by a wave passing under us, alarming the first dozen times and disturbing when you are trying to sleep.

The next main event is arrival at our way-point about 60 n.miles south of Madagascar, far enough off shore to avoid the the high seas that build in the shallower water. We should make that turn in about 24 hours then set a course for 200 n.miles ENE of Durban.