TEAM SA LOGBOOK - 29th April - St Helena to Ascension

29th April 2009 - Brandon Schoor
3rd sail leg from St. Helena to Ascension

wind speed....4ebn
speed.....5.7 knots
temp.....25c
latitude.....16 26.4,S
longitude....008 21.0,W
nautical miles....131

Today there were a lot of suprizes for me... the first was everyone had to change watches which means changing cleaning stations, day watch, nav.day and our night watch... and another big suprize was that the weather changed which means the wind was on our side, so instead of going slow all the time we picked up some speed, we went up to 8 knots and after a while we slowed down again... Later in the day so between 1 and 2pm we did a man over board practice which took 1hour...when that was done, it was off to clubs.

There was four types of clubs, Xhosa, fitness and ropes and knots but me and a few others made our own club which was the eating club which we all enjoyed. Our last suprize was that at 8pm tonight the time will go back 1 hour, so when its 8pm it will actually be 7pm which means more time to sleep... After we all set our times back the SA team had a media meeting where we discussed who would do what e.g video camera, photo camera and so on. I asked the team how was there day and they all enjoyed it and so did I...