A good nights sailing last night, the breeze dropped a little, but in these waters it is is actually good not to be travelling too fast at night as there are logs, pallets, fish traps, posts etc in the water and how they anchor posts in 80 metres of water is beyond me but you see them sticking up out of the water.

An uneventful night, which is also always a good sign so we just steadily and very comfortably clicked away more miles after a fine dinner by our executive chef Neil.

Today the winds eased off a little more so since the morning we have had first one motor, which also produces 220volt to run the fridges also and then the other to make water which is still running now at 1730.

Just behind us about 5 miles is another cat from the Rally who came across the horizon early morning and has been off at a distance all day paralleling our course but alternating from time to time as we each chase a little breeze both having full sails up all day but the wind just off the bow and quite fine so we can only just hold course.

Looks like another two days from here to Kuchin or at least tonight and tomorrow night before we pass Indonesia to find Malaysian Sarawak and the river down to Kuchin.

Tracking along very comfortably though, rather have the engine off but at least it is very comfortable and numerous books will be read on board before we hit land.

A couple of vessels in front had a close encounter with a waterspout a couple of hours ago.