After a night with strong winds everything – really everything! – became salty. My bed, the floor, the cockpit and the cushion I sit on all day long while keeping an eye on things from the cockpit. Eventhough my cushion really needs to be replaced, it is disgustingly salty and soaked now. I am also salty and soaked so I still sit on this cushion in the cockpit watching the waves. The wind slowly decreased to 30 knots [55 kilometres or 35 miles per hour; force 7 on the Beaufort scale], but the waves are still pretty high. Because of that, one moment you are enclosed in water and the next moment, you feel like you are riding a rollercoaster when surfing down a wave. Nevertheless, I made good progress last night, and there is chance I will arrive tomorrow with the first daylight.

Laura