Having shortened sail for the night we are still flying along, at once the joy and challenge of an easily driven boat with a big rig. A pod of about two dozen porpoises came out for a play in our bow wave at sunset and made us smile. We are now truly out there, having left the last vestiges of land in our wake hours ago. Ahead is another 1,900 miles to Djibouti. Exchanged positions with other cruising boats doing the same route. Arbutus, Joana, Libert‚ and Amenoz were on the SSB sked and it was comforting to plot their positions, but sobering to see just how far apart we are. Acalephe emailed us today and it appears we will get to the entry to the Internationally Recommended Transit Corridor (IRTC) on the same day, albeit from slightly different directions – they are coming from Mal‚ in the Maldives.

Position 11° 55.855′ N 71° 03.772′ E
COG 281T
SOG 6.9kt