Daylight and what a difference – towering monsters black as the gate to Hell silhouetted against the tiny glimmer of starlight through the overcast become just big and grey and fluffy – still threatening because you know what's in there but without the looming menace they have at night. Still going just south of east though – but ok in the overall scheme. Should give us a better SW angle if the wind really does do as predicted. The equator is still 294 miles south and – like Alison Chadwick's graphic metaphor, this flea on the elephants rump can't see over its horizon from down amongst the crevasses.
Waves – we have a SE swell, about a metre, but lumpy with wind waves, then every hundred or so there's a train of three or four much bigger ones – amplified, perhaps from some other pattern? – but we think it happens with much bigger southern ocean swells as well
Gerry & Donna – g'day – if you promise to use a 'clean' email system (Donna's perhaps?) – without all the logos and caveats and other attached c–p I'll talk to you direct on sailmail – try it out first on berrimilla2@gmail.
Ron – you and your friend should do more cryptic crosswords! Grindy and all its versions are anagrams – the clue would look something like 'Clear liquid tautology from Dr. Grindy?' 3,3. Or perhaps 'Dr Ringyd's medical compound from Cork?' 3,3
Carol – glad our wind appeared somewhere! Izz n'G yo and pleased you survived the Uprisings.
The logs ramblings can be cryptic, so we have added: