8 April

Message from Callisto:

We are making not such good progress overnight. The wind died to about 8 kts and we are having to work hard to maintain any boat speed. We even motored for 3 hours during the night before setting the spinnaker and the mizzen staysail at dawn today. With all the rags up we can do just over 5kts in more or less the right direction. All well otherwise, crew all OK.

We caught a 4 foot sailfish yesterday but he was such a beautiful creature and they are apparently not too good to eat so we released him. This lull in the wind will put a dent in our ETA which has now been put back to the 20th but I'm sure the wind will fill in at some point.

Current position is 6 15.3S, 112 53.8W speed 5.5kts, course 235M