215 nautical miles to go.
The wind still hasn't picked up and we're motoring along at 4.5 knots with main and mizzen sails up to keep us from rolling on the glassy ocean. We stopped the boat this morning so Jimmy could jump over the side to check the bottom and he found a lot of weed caught around the prop. He didn't stay in long so as not to become shark bait which was lucky as our friends on 'Antares' caught a 1.5m shark off the back of their boat this afternoon!! The good news is that we've picked up half a knot in speed since he cleaned it off so it was well worth the effort. It's now dark outside and we're getting close to some shallow shoals where a lot of boats ahead have reported seeing Indonesian fishing boats and long nets so we have to keep a really good look out even though it's so dark it will be hard to see anything. This is something we'll have to get used to as Indonesians over fish their seas and their nets can often stretch out for a couple of miles so pretty hard to avoid. They also use large bamboo fish traps that can do a lot of damage to our fiberglass hull and no lights on their canoes means we could also do a lot of damage to them.....so no sleep tonight!!
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