Distance to run: 662.9nm

Began with Happy Birthday boiled eggs. Birthday girl later cooked dinner of boiled potatoes and carrots, and threw up. All 3 sat down and then devoured the birthday dinner.

No presents. All postponed as Walvis Bay didn’t sell any nice jewelry, despite trying every store.

Perfect sailing conditions all day. Continued under staysail to mid morning to keep things nice and comfortable on board, 1000 up went foresail with 3 reefs. 1500 shook out 3rd reef to keep speed above 6 knots.

Tuya feeling better so able to step on it in a lightening breeze. Toshiba blue screened and died. No gribs as X-gate not registered on the Samsung laptop. Installed GPS driver and got fixes on OpenCPN. Put waypoints into plotter. New source of entertainment watching the distance to waypoint (DTW) run down. 662.9nm @ 1915 Walvis Bay time (1715 UTC).

All tummies getting better. Bread, Berocca, oranges, boiled eggs is main diet, with marshmallows and peanuts for snacks.

Only just managing 6 knots so hoisted 1 reef mainsail to speed up and help Juliet who is struggling to cope with lee helm. Speeds now 6 to 12 knots (occasional surfs), averaging 8. Need to ave. 6.25 knots to make Jamestown by noon on 31 December.

Zaya reading 2 Girls, 2 Catamarans. Says she is having a great birthday.