06.51S 101.20W
JENNY
Alan Franklin/ Lynne Gane
Wed 12 Mar 2008 02:54
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Well its a special day today as Ellie caught her
1st fish, a Yellow Fin Tuna about 15" long we are having it for dinner tonight
as she has gutted and prepared it.Neither Alan or myself can get over the fact
that at every stage of its demise from catching to gin
infusion to decapitation and finally breaking its back bone Ellie was
saying sorry to the fish,doesn't bode very well for wayward boy
friends.
Today we are still sailing and hoping to keep up
our average speed to achieve a 160nm day at this moment the wind has dropped to
below 10 knts so our speed has gone down to 5.7knts.Our lower limit is 5knts
then the iron sail goes on( in other words we turn on the engine).
Several boats have problems one has a failed
gearbox another the autohelm,yet another with a crew member with a temperature
of 104 degrees requiring attention.The gearbox situation is not so
bad and the temperature will be treated with anti-biotics on the advice of one
or more of the many doctors in our fleet the worse problem is probably the
autohelm after all its hard work hand steering especially for 3000nm with just
a husband and wife team but one of the other boats will rendez-vous with
them to render assistance.With any sort of swell running its going to be
difficult to transfer from one boat to another if not dangerous.For the land
lubbers you have no idea how much boats move around when at sea.
That's all for now its dinner with Ellies tuna and
watches .
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