Day 6 - Marine life 24hrs
Juniper
John and Sally
Fri 27 Nov 2009 12:11
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23:04.799N 28:40.952W
What a 24 hrs. The fish finally bit and a very
tasty dinner resulted (see stop press phots last night). Actually our problem
was that large fish had taken the lure and snapped the line twice. First was a
large, beautiful dolphin fish which jumper clear before snapping the line
(actually quite glad he didn't end up in the cockpit) then one that got to 10ft
from the back end before snapping 50lb line - so the last wahoo was a great
final result.
In the same period we have had dolpins with us in
the day and night plus this morning we were passed by 6 pilot
whales.
Upped our progress yesterday with the spinnaker but
we are still following the strategy of minimum miles along the great circle
route while others push harder, off the line. Weather still indicates that we
can keep pointing at St Lucia and expect a 15-20kts NE wind behind
us.
Big ocean out here - we know that boats are quite
close from the ARC results web site but last night we saw nothing re nav lights
and today one boat so far.
Still running single man watches over night which
is making for better sleep all round. 2 hours on 6 off.
Morale is good, food is excellent and the sun is
shining.
John, Jonathan, Guy,
David
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