31 January 1999 - Tuesday

"We are finishing our stay in Uruguay and we are going south. The crazy pace of the cruise, we both, Marcin and I are extremely exhausted. We have 1500 miles to Horn. The crew works whole days on board. We repaired the whole bunch of things: sails, bilge pump; we painted the ship's sides. Antica has got a new wind power generator. What worries me is that we are 10 days late which is due to two additional damages of bowsprit band and formalities with immigration kept us a bit longer in Brazil. Finally we are over the tropical zone and temperatures are getting better, there are no more such paralysing heats. (...)

To tell the truth I am a bit tense, before this part of the voyage. An Englishman is sailing along with us on his own boat, so we have a company. We have also all the charts of the whole way up to Puerto Montt in Chile. (...)

Keep your thumbs for us, it will be a hard time for me and for Antica."

Capt. Jerzy Wąsowicz

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