Finally after five days of bobbing, the wind is back! Yesterday evening the threatening squalls that I could see all day on the western horizon, suddenly came rushing in at Gup… I quickly dropped down the mizzen sail and rolled in the Genoa but before I could do anything else a powerful wind gust hit us and all of a sudden we were going at almost 8 knots with only the mainsail up! [15 kilometres or 9 land miles an hour]. After five days spent sleeping the wind was obviously not focused for it came in turn from all directions, really from everywhere… Halfway trough the night it straigthened up and it is now blowing from the South South East. So now it is coming at an angle from astern and we are really moving with all the sails up… Guppy is going at 7 knots on a straight course so I had to adjust the windvane only twice. This kind of sailing is just mega fun! So for the first time on this leg I checked on distances covered and still to go. The entrance to the Torres Strait is less than 1000 nautical miles away now [1852 kilometres or 1151 land miles]! However it looks like there will be very little moonlight when I get there. Tonight the full moon was shining and even with a cloudy sky there was plenty of light.

Laura