At Last, International Water!
Bobbejaan
J Louw(s)
Tue 10 Nov 2009 05:30
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Position: 25:29.7N
57:15.4E
The last 36 hours has been tremendously
busy! Bobbejaan went through her first rough weather and she was absolutely
awesome, thank goodness for a catamaran! It certainly paid off to have the right
equipment onboard. Bobbejaan is very well set up and she feels extremely safe.
We had to put on our foul weather gear as salt water was splashing everywhere.
We had salt water straight onto our face several times. This morning, I had a go
and wash off all the salt but I will need a lot more water to clean it off.
Tuna = 0
Johann = 2
I've caught two yellow fin tunas! One is
6kg and the other is 8.5kg. Will be having tuna steak today! First fight was
only about 15minutes. As per regulation, the first fish always goes back into
the sea, alive and kicking to fight another day. What a beautiful fish! The
second fight was a lot more challenging and took about 30minutes however, when
it came onboard, it was extremely exhausted and we decided to keep it. I have
changed my mind, I don't want to catch a 60kg tuna anymore as I am certain that
I'll be the loser in that battle! Now my size is only a 30kg tuna.
Progress is slow as the predominant wind
is in the direction we want to go. Sailing southeast then tacking to sail
southwest. We had between 10-12 knots of wind last night and we were doing
about 5-7knots. The weather calmed down during the night and today it is
absolutely calm. It's like a big
pond out here. Hardly a ripple anywhere.
Night sailing in the Gulf of Oman is
not for the weak-hearted. We had tankers coming from all directions going along
at 20 knots. At one stage we were surrounded by six tankers passing within a
mile. Thank goodness that is over!
I can honestly say, I should have done
this a long, long time ago as this is absolutely where I wanna be!
We will post some photos and video
later.
PS.
It was a total rip off to get clearance
from that agent at Port Khalid (Sharjah, UAE)!
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