Wind! After running on the engine all night again, finally some wind came and since this morning we are moving under sails. With a good wind of about 8 knots [15 kilometres or 9 miles per hour; force 3 on the Beaufort scale] coming from astern, ‘Gup’ and I are going at a speed of about 5,5 knots [9 kilometres or 5,8 land miles an hour] again. The clouds are gone and Guppy is slowly turning into a baking oven again; it is getting warmer day by day. And in four days, I will sail across the equator. Yesterday it rained for about two hours and I kept busy with collecting water. Now it is too warm to do anything, and I am mostly busy showering myself with buckets full of water, and keeping an eye on the course and the sails while sitting in the shade.

Laura