You know you’re moving into a different climate when you bring your dressing gown and doona out of retirement! We’ve spent the last 4 months between 10 degrees south and 10 degrees north, almost always sheltered by the land masses of south-east Asia. It’s been hot and humid, with the temperature in a very narrow band between 28 and 34 degrees. Sea surface temperatures have been just under 30 degrees throughout, further stabilising the ambient temperatures. That has all rapidly changed in the last couple of nights as we sailed west into the Arabian Sea and slowly edged north (now more than 13 degrees north). The NE monsoon is bringing cool winds off the snow capped mountains of Kashmir and Persia, making it a positively frosty 24 degrees last night. Djibouti is at 11 degrees 30 minutes north, so we will head south again once we turn into the Internationally Recognised Transit Corridor (IRTC) north of Socotra. Expecting night time temperatures to continue dropping as we close the land masses of the Middle East.

Position 13° 14.213′ N 61° 59.374′ E
COG 279T
SOG 6.9kt