Aniara II - Aniara, May 19

19 May

We follow our 60 degrees track and we are sailing fast. During the last three days our average speed has been 7,15 knots and the three of us onboard are extremely excited. If we are as lucky with the weather conditions for the days ahead we will reach Horta in 11 days instead of the 15 days we calculated with. We have asked our web-administrator to extend his duty to give us some weather maps, since the rest of the sailing is a matter if we are caught in the middle of a high pressure or if we manage to sneak around it on its north side. Yesterday we noticed we had some water leakage so we spend the day to unpack a lot of our gears hidden deep into Aniara. Hopefully we managed to locate the source of leakage and we sealed it with silicon. The water came in from above since we are sailing with water over skarndeck (english name unknown, maybe sidedeck) almost all the time. There is absolutely no reason to worry, it was just great that we got something to do during the day. We have no contact with any other boats or ships and we are still the unhappiest people in the Ocean when it comes to our fishing luck. In all other aspects we are the happiest persons on the Globe, except that we miss you all back home.