Sep 05, 2005 – 1630hrs UTC

1630hrs 05 Sep 2005 UTC 22’10”N 025’06”W Ref 332

I’ve put some target waypoints on the chart for your greater fascination – one at 26W on the Equator, the next at 23S 023W, where I hope we can turn towards home, one at Tristan da CunhaA remote volcanic group of islands in the south Atlantic Ocean. It is the most remote inhabited archipelago in the world. Tristan da Cunha is part of the British overseas territory of Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha. More on wikipedia. at 3704S 01217W which I hope we’ll pass to the north of, and one at 40S 020E directly below Cape Town. That’s the plan. Execution is in a different Kettle but exciting to have some blobs to aim at.

The water temp rose about 3 degrees to nearly 27 deg in the last 12 hours – and, sure enough, we’re headbutting about a knot-- Speed: definition of speed at sea. One knot is one nautical mile per hour. The nautical mile is about 1.15 % longer than the "statute" mile used on land. A knot is about half a metre per second. -- A knot is also the result of winding a rope around itself or another rope to make a join or a loop . of warm current.