23 01 S, 002 20 E;
600 nautical miles to Saint Helena . I have prepared a list of things to do during my very short stay on the island. If I reach it in the morning, I would like to sail out in the evening... and there’re so many things to do. I’m looking forward to a hot shower, to seeing Napoleon’s memorial place... yesterday it was rain, sun, rain, sun... I was closing and opening the flap over entry hatch over and over. It’s not easy stuff, you know. You have to dig your feet into the ground – once I even slept through a rain cloud, so tired I was... and my sleeping bag got wet again. But I managed to get some hot tinned soup. Pity though that my fixed oven swings a bit to one side and half of the tin’s contents landed on the oven instead of my stomach. The other half got mixed with salt water when I was (again) flooded by a wave. I did not get angry, though. I thought: “How many people got their lunch mixed with Atlantic water today?”
The wind seems to be dying a bit, maybe I will have a chance to rest, eventually...