Melbourne Osaka Cup - Saturday morning sked 23 March, 2013. Escapade over 230 nautical miles East of Sydney and making steady progress on a North Easterly heading - still in a 25 knot North-North-Westerly at 7.00 am. Reported avoiding a lightning storm last night.

Southern Cross, almost as far East as Escapade, but 200 miles further south, also still sailing into a Northerly breeze,

Turbulence remaining inshore, 25 miles North of Eden at 7.00 am, reported a sea flat as glass with a light South Westerly. This was in contrast to Eric’s email written last night:

Hi folks, really rough night last night (Thursday) 5 to 6 metre sea and very blowy at times, 35 to 45 knots. I had a bad night with sea sickness but settled now, and sailing in perfect conditions off Eden, 14 knots of breeze and trucking along at 8.5 knots.

Paul is asleep right now so she's on sleepy bill auto pilot. Paul is going super well as always and only had 1 beer so far, last night’s weather even slowed that down! Tomorrow I think we'll get out the CD's that Jacko set up for our voyage and give them a blast. Well over and out for now! Keep watching the tracker. Cheers Eric & Paul, Turbulence