11th of November  
Only 998 nautical miles left today, first day with less than a thousand miles to go. First day that I can sail, too. It doesn’t matter it’s cloudy and  raining, the Moon rises almost 2 hours before the sunset and shines so brightly!!!
Daily log:
- look around for ships, weather check, deck check; navigation, log check; rest after a sleepless night with a break every 20-30 minutes; coffee; it’s the 11th of November today, I am grateful to all those who fought so that I can sail under the Polish flag; reading mail, sending mail; radio talk with a nearby yacht; list of small tasks in Africa; an attempt to fix an alarm in autopilot (do I really have to add that it was a failed attempt? I am no engineer, that’s for sure:/); breakfast, lunch and dinner in one; reading guidebooks about Durban and Africa; coffee, radio talk with a Durban “weather station”; navigation, sleep, reading, sleep; jibe at midnight; mainsail reefing at 3 am; sleep with breaks every 20 minutes. Night: the stopwatch did not wake me up and there was still 10 minutes left on my alarm clock, but the C.A.R.D. radar detector made a loud sound. Means something was very close, so  run on deck and yes, it was there. Chill, about 5 miles away. I checked my sense of distance on the AIS: HA! exactly 5 miles.

That’s it, more or less but believe me – every day is different...