Day four - fish for dinner!
Adonde
Neil & Tracy Batcheler
Fri 22 Dec 2006 16:44
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Noon position 23:34.2N 19:26.2W
Days run a slightly better 134nm
Well, day four and we have a fish! Not enormous, I
grant you, but plenty enough for dinner for two, even after my cack-handed
attempt to fillet it and all the waste that entailed.
 It's a smallish dorada, not unlike the first one
that got away yesterday, caught on another pink squidy lure that I found at the
bottom of the tacklebox.
Made a bit of a mess of the back of the boat what
with all the thrashing about, but once I'd restrained her Tracy calmed right
down. Boom boom.
We're still plodding away at the back of our little
fleet, the wind can't quite make it's mind up and is currently blowing at around
25-30kts but every now and then drops off to 15 kts. Still, we're making
progress heading south towards the easterly trade
winds which will hopefully be a bit more consistent, and managed to cover a bit
more ground in the last 24 hours than previously.
Still in touch with the others via the radio sched,
and everyone seems to be settling into a bit of a routine now after the first
few days of getting used to interrupted sleep etc.
Finally, I know I promised you a picture of the
ham, but that was before we caught a fish, so you'll have to
wait!
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