February 4, 2007 - Andamans to Maldives, Day 5
by George & Merima

Hi Everyone!

It's been another day of rather light winds which keeps us tacking downwind, back and forth across the rhumb line. We logged 169 miles and got 163 miles closer to our way point. As of this writing we have 559 miles to go to the Maldives.

The biggest excitement we had during the day, aside from Merima's great meals, was sighting a pod of 20 or so pilot whales off the starboard quarter this afternoon. The only other notable event was a brief rain shower, the first drops we've seen in at least a month. A little more could have washed the decks nicely instead of turning dust to mud.

We expect to round the southern tip of Sri Lanka early tomorrow morning, but with visibility limited by haze and our course taking us well away from the busy shipping lanes, we may not even get a glimpse.

Cheers, George, Merima, Thane and Graham