2100hrs 26 July 2003 UTC: 01N47, 173W26

Heading 223T, speed 5.5kts, wind SE15, sea NE/SE 1.5m, sea temp 25.3C. Yesterday was so rough below that computer work was out of the question. A big swell from NE and SE and 20k t winds kept us hanging on with both hands,20dead tired. Today is much better . We have constant SE winds and are moving quite easily. Nothing but us out here though a strange loom of light appeared in the same place on the horizon for the second night at 0230??