Weird Fish
MILANO BLANCO
James Blackburn
Fri 3 Jul 2009 13:43
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03 Jul 2009 noon 36:40.00N 60:54.65W
Paul:
We are expecting a quiet day today and tommorrow
and then we are due to have a few days of steady 20 knot winds blowing us due
East which is perfect, so we should make really good time.
In the 3 days we have been away we have seen only
one other boat and that was a super tanker miles away in the middle of the
night, we have not even seen a plane in the sky. It is quite an
unbelievable feeling being so far from land with absolutely nothing else in
sight.
As expected the winds were fairly light and we motored for most of the
afternoon, we had a pleasant evening and then from about 11pm the wind started
to pick up, Carlos and I had a beautifull sail with about 10-15 knots of wind
behind and a calm sea. We roared along listening to James Blunt and others at
about 7 Knots it was absolutely magical. At about 1 pm we caught a fish it was
about 2 foot long and its body was about 1 inch deep with a small sail running
the length of its body, the weird thing was it had a huge head with razor sharp
teeth.
In the morning the wind picked up to a steady 20 knots, as
forecast, but the seas were building all the time. We made good time to our
noon log and had moved 170nm nearer to our
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