We're now over two hundred miles out of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy, and we've taken a route somewhat to the south of the original straight line between P-K and Adak, avoiding the 35 knot winds coming up from behind. As it is the conditions aren't exactly perfect - cold, wet and miserable - but we're making reasonable progress with a good 15 knots average.

This in fact is the first of two Tuesday reports. In the next few hours we'll be crossing the International Date Line, which does a sideways jink to the west at this latitude to accommodate the Aleutian Islands. We've already changed our watches to Alaskan time to be ready for Adak and Kodiak, so from P-K time we've put them forward three hours, and back a day. It seems awfully confusing, but as far as the world records are concerned, all timing is done in GMT, so we don't have to do any odd sums.