05.2S; 099.36W
Around the world with the Aqualunies
Jonathan & Gabrielle Lyne
Thu 1 Apr 2010 06:03
March 31st, 2010
We are at last in the trade winds, with a better sea and hammering along at
between 7.5 and 8.5 knots with about 15 - 17 knots of wind.
Lots of Dolphins again last night playing around the yacht, and something
or a pod of something stayed under the yacht for about an hour during
the night as the depth was reading 3 metres for quite a while; at times like
that you pray it is not a whale.
During the check around the yacht this morning Allan found a clevis pin on
the deck from the lower part of the vang where it fits into the mast. It was
reinserted with a new split pin, lucky we didn't have the vang hitting the
deck.
The (none) Fishing........Jonathan caught a Marlin and fought it for 50
mins' before it went under the yacht and broke the line. I don't want him
to catch Marlin, I want him to catch a good size Tuna or Dorado but they seem
elusive. We were all looking forward to having fish for dinner tonight....
We have now put the clocks back an hour so we are now eight hours
behind the UK.
We are catching up on our reading and I am also trying to sort photo's on
my computer.
That is all the news for today; we are about 600 miles away from the
nearest land and in the middle of a huge ocean.
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