Life on board has taken a twist now that the crew is racing in the Java Sea. “It’s the same but different,” told Mohammed al Ghailaini on board Majan. “Flat water is the biggest change.  A multihull can handle very big waves but give Majan flat water and she purrs along like a happy cat stretched out in the sun. Our drinking water consumption has tripled and our freeze-dried food consumption has halved due to the rising temperatures. You just don’t feel like eating hot mince and mash or spaghetti bolognaise in 40 degrees.  A fresh salad would be nice and maybe a cool glass of juice!  Dream on…for a few more days. So far, we have made better progress than expected. The forecast has been for very little wind by day and a touch more by night.  We did have a hot and painful 4 hour stretch of under 3 knots yesterday - but last night we fed off the updraft of a large thunderstorm about 10 miles away.  As the hot are was sucked up into the system, it drew air past us giving us a solid 15 knots for most of the night,” he reported. Majan and her crew are hanging onto a nice 8 knots from 300 degrees, for now. They are only about 36nm from another waypoint - a light house called Karang Selatan that they must leave to port. After that they head north for 60nm to another island and then they can turn left and start their 450nm approach to Singapore and the finish line off Cape Piai, the fourth Cape of the Indian Ocean 5 Capes Race.