Graham
03/12/2008, Heading West at last
The last few days
have been lost in the midst of time. Get up, eat, fish, prepare fish for
dinner/lunch/breakfast/, eat, etc.... It has been quite cloudy for the past 2
days which has somewhat put pay to our astro navigation work at the moment as
we haven't seen the sun recently. Tracey and I have now both caught our first
Dorade fish using my 39 pound special, all inclusive fishing rod/reel/line/lure
package from Brixham. None of our expensive factory made lures seem to be that
effective, however....chop the finger off a pink marigold rubber glove, slice
the ends so it looks like a squid, draw a couple of eyes on with a permanent
marker, trail it along behind the boat about 30 metres away, and 5 minutes
later you have a fish on the end big enough for dinner for 4! A few chopping up
and gutting lessons on board, and we are now all trained in the art of fish
catching, gutting, preparing and cooking. We are all still alive, so no
poisonous varieties have obviously been caught yet! With only 1760 Nm to go
now, the excitement is building....well, perhaps not quite yet! But the miles
are decreasing to Saint Lucia and we hope to still make it before the ARC
closing ceremony if we are really lucky and these apparent 'trade winds'
actually fire up over the next few days! Still, we know we are making some
progress west as the sun now rises at 0830 hrs and sets at about 1915 hrs, so
the evenings are longer. We could change our clocks back 2 hours which is the
local time difference here, but that will really confuse everyone!
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