This morning I first tried to make something with my stock of now rock-hard baguettes. Unfortunately I did not succeed, so right now I turned to eat some muesli..! As soon as I just get to bed, I have to get up again. Flap, flap, flap… winds coming from astern, winds from ahead, and then coming from the side again – all night..! By constantly adjusting the sails with the light and shifting winds, all in all we averaged a speed of about five knots most of the time [9 kilometres or 6 land miles an hour]. But the wind has now completely vanished, and so I had to honestly ask in Guppy’s small engine for help. We are not going too fast, but on this way I will save some fuel. I expect to reach the edge of the Tuamotus archipelago tomorrow in the evening. It is both nice and exciting, and probably I will only get very little sleep then.

Laura