Day Seventy Nine
Lat. 35° 40' S Long. 10° 56' E Dist. 138 miles
"12-4 am Port watch jybed ship onto the port tack again. 6-8 got up the anchor cables and shackled them onto the anchors. We have started painting the ship for port and cleaning the brass. I got the standard binnacle cover and rubbed for four hours but as the brass has been exposed for 14 months in all weathers and not cleaned once during that period it is rather a big undertaking. I cleaned for four hours and Jock relieved me keeping going for one hour.
Winning 2 boxes of matches from when we started. Still a good breeze. 382 miles to go to Cape Town."