The wind is still weak and blowing straight from behind but all in all, I am on the right course and the sails are not flapping too much.. This will happen when Guppy rocks back and forth faster than the sails can follow, then they briefly shift sides and swing back hard when filled again with wind. Since yesterday I have a sore throat and I also feel pretty tired because I didn’t have much sleep last night. I was catching on the other yacht and it was sailing exactly in my radar-alarm range. Early this morning the yacht disappeared behind me over the eastern horizon without having replied to any of my calls.. I have now passed the remaining atolls without running aground…Also I have called my sister Kim to congratulate her on her 13th birthday. Now ‘Gup’ and I are alone again and I can catch up on some sleep. I just hope the wind won’t slowly fade some more so that the sails won’t flap even harder from the lack of wind..

Laura