“We started the Indian Ocean 5 Capes course from Muscat on the 6th February on a line just off the Royal Palace 23˚ 37.55 North. In the early hours of this morning, 23rd February, we crossed the same latitude South about 400nm SE of the Mauritius Rodrigues Islands” said Mark Covell, media crew onboard Majan. Having spent a few days holding back for a very ugly depression, that turned into a storm, then into a tropical storm, then into a hurricane, Majan and the crew are now ‘blast-reaching’ on a heading of 240 degrees. They are regularly touching speeds in the high 20’s (knots). “Meanwhile, the waves are picking up and my job is getting a touch harder. Typing this, and for the guys to do emails, is now also a mission in itself. We find there’s no guarantee that our fingers will hit the keys we are aiming for! The waves must know when we are typing and shudder the boat just as we try to hammer the word out. It makes for some good typos and odd copy - that I can’t always blame on my dyslexia!” adds Mark Covell. See the 2d tracking map below to pinpoint Majan’s position en route for Cape Town and the crossing of the second famous Cape on the course, Cape Agulhas.