Abby Southerland is within 500 miles of Cape Town where she will do a pit stop and will meet her brother Zack who is also a world circumnavigator and they will both restore Abby's sail boat autopilots so the boat will last the rest of the voyage. Zack is bringing some parts with him and is meeting Abby in order to help her with the port authorities there in Cape Town in Southern Africa. Right now Abby is experiencing pretty normal weather and is coping just fine now that she restored her own main auto Pilot by aligning it and fixing the hydaulic leak that was occuing there.

As for Jessica, she has just rounded the Southern Cape of Tasmania Island and will be heading north on her final leg to Sydney Australia on the Eastern Coast of Australia. Jessican unlike Abby has been experiencing some very rough weather and has one storm followed after the other so you can imagine she is rather soaked and tired and is probably tired of sleeping in a wet bed. She will be glad to hit shore in Sydney at long last have a nice hot shower and get some decent sleep for once without being tossed around. Jessica has also been experiencing some sleep deprivation during these past storms but she seems to be coping well with it.

I figure that Jessica and Abby will both have no problems the next few days...But Jessica is probably a bit sore and stiff from fighting the seas to keep her boat afloat and at the right angle to the waves. You can't imagine how tiring that is. I have already posted Abby's and Jesssica's blogs so you can track both progress on their blog websites...

Benjamin

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