Position: N 47° 02' W 07° 26'

That is one of my greatest fears, since whales are quite big and therefore not as soft as one could think hitting one with Cantare would be disastrous. We would sink in a very short time and that would make it hard to collect as much survival equipment as we would like. Today it almost happened! I had taken over the wheel from Sofia when I noticed two black fins 10 meters from us. When Sofia saw them we screamed of joy, finally some company. I thought they were dolphins but when they started to swim towards us it became apparent that they were bigger than that. They came really close and when Sofia grabbed the hand rail to stabilize herself in case of a hit they dived just in front of our bow. Wow! Adrenaline was pumping and we couldn't stop talking about them. After a while they reappeared 20 meters behind us and we could see that there were three of them. We consulted our pilot book and have agreed on pilot whales. Since then two groups of dolphins have spent time playing in our bow waves. We have been able to sail for about 8 hours today but now the wind has decreased and we are forced to listen to our old noisy engine again. But the sun is shining and the water temperature has raised four degrees Celsius since we left Falmouth and is now up on 19 degrees. / The Captain