Sailing past Madagascar

We are hoping to spot these animals on our sail past...

If you need a fix just ask Denis...

Introducing Denis, he's our Master Navigator... more accurate than a military GPS, if we get lost he can locate us to the nearest millimetre! His hobbies are eating chocolate, riding his scooter and growing hair. We think he ate too much chocolate before this picture, note Randall looking on in stunned amazement?

Where are we today?

This is where we are today, is that a gigantic iceberg? Oh sorry its the Antartic! We are cruising along in the rain today, we travelled 113 nautical miles yesterday in 23 hours, so our average speed was 4.91 knots per hour. Why was there only 23 hours in our day? Because we have advanced the clocks by 1hour, (that means we are now GMT+4) and thats GOOD news as it means we are getting closer to Mauritius and Singapore (to be precise, 742 nm to Mauritius and 4110 nm to Singapore). We will be passing Madagasgar today, or if you prefer to watch the movie! More interesting facts about Madagascar at Lonely Planet.

Who's that hanging out of that chopper?

Heres the chopper flying past, if you look closely you can see Dave taking those pictures - good job you were strapped in!

View from the chopper!

This picture was taken from the chopper at Port Elizabeth, thanks Dave!

A picture of the Mercur at night

This is a picture of the Songa Mercur taken at night!

Where are we today?

Hi folks! This is where we are today. The weather is fine and we are "speeding" along at 4.10 knots and we have 855 nautical miles before we reach Mauritius, 4223 nautical miles until we reach Singapore! The crew on board now joined by chopper in Cape Town on 11th August, and its taken us this long to get around the Cape and close to Madagascar (thats the smaller lump next to the big lump, which is Africa). Follow the line and that is where we are heading, to the small island of Mauritius ...