[password]seabird14
[position]33 39.3 S 026 56.5 E
[heading] 243T
[speed] 7.8kt
[weather] 8-10 SSW, 1-2m S swell, 1019 mb, 0%cc
[status] 70 nm to Port Elizabeth. Motorsailing, sgl reefed main, 243T at 7.8kts. The wind filled in a bit yesterday afternoon, 20 kts from the NNE, allowing us to sail for 16 hours. As predicted, the wind has now died and veered to the S, and the barometer has started dropping as a SWly is due in tomorrow. We are pedal to the metal motoring to make it to PE now, and having forsaken the aid from the Augulhas current, are instead heading more in shore for a direct rhumbline to PE. Anticipating arrival early this evening.
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