Monday morning at dawn, the sun has just come up across a flat and calm sea! After a VERY slow day yesterday we drifted into a lovely sunset under MPS and Main but not much breeze. At close to midnight it was TOTALLY CALM with the wind direction indicator as gravity took over from wind and we slightly rolled on the flat water. (Damn that wind generator - how long was the warranty!).

So we dropped all the limp sails back to their places of storage and motored for a few hours with one engine just on idle to chill the fridges and at least keep us pointing in the right direction.

About 0400 there was a slight breeze tight on so we put up the main and genoa to cover just a few more miles. Now with the sun coming up we have about 2.5 knots of breeze.

At this average speed it might take us about 230 hours to get to Kupang!

A good chance to read a few books, read one through last night, and at least cooking, eating and washing etc is easy as we slowly drift towards Indonesia. Fortunately the current is running that way!

Some boats must be motoring as they are moving ahead more quickly, but we don't want to burn all our diesel yet so are just running enough to keep the fridges and freezer cold - batteries are holding up well even with all instruments and autopilot going all night (and all day!) not that there is much to steer but it is keeping us pointing in the right direction.

Too slow to even put a fishing line out!

But as the old saying goes the worst day on the water is still better than the best day in an office - no egos and alter egos to deal with out here! just a happy dolphin or two, the sharks stay mainly out of sight!