Graptolite - Wahoo!

Graptolite's Sailing Log
Martyn Pickup & Heike Richter
Sat 26 Jul 2008 11:31
17:15.82S 160:41.78E Saturday 26th July PM

The wind is now coming from the southeast, as it's supposed to, and it's
been very pleasant sailing. The prospect of the crew having a 'chunder in
the old Pacific sea' is now past.

Colin caught a good-sized Wahoo today. The first for Grapto. It was about
16lbs but we didn't weigh it. For all you non-hunter-gatherers, a Wahoo is a
long fish with very good white meat which should keep us going for a few
days. Now we will have even more supermarket food to dump before Australia!
An experiment with this fish was to just cover its eyes to keep it still
instead of our usual beating seven bells out of it with clubs. Thanks for
that tip, Joanne. It works and saved us a lot of cleaning up.

We have about 850 miles to run before Cairns. Arrival could be about 6 days
from now for those of you waiting on the dockside for us.

M