Day 4
Top Secret
Feel The Magic Yacht Vacations
Mon 14 Jun 2010 19:01
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Position 28:48.45N 64:55.55W
It has definitely cooled down a bit. You can
feel it at night when the hatch is open, one actually needs the blanket and not
just the sheet. Wind wise it is pretty much the same, almost non
existent. We hoisted the spinnaker(huge sail for downwind
sailing) this morning as the wind direction is now coming from almost
directly behind us. The motion on the boat is so much nicer and I was
lying on the trampolines most of the morning without getting splashed. We
are still heading for Bermuda and are definitively going to make a stop to
get some extra spares and fuel and to fix the galley hatch which is leaking like
a sieve.
Yesterday Matt let out some line and tied it around
one of the winches and not long after had something on the hook. He reeled
it in and lone and behold he had a fish. A beautiful Dorado with bright
yellow colouring, almost shocking yellow. We struggled a bit to get the
hook out (Rean got bitten and Matt got cut) but once I gently pulled it out, we
threw him back as he was just to gorgeous to eat. As Matt
was busy letting the line out once again, something snagged on it and pulled the
line out of his hands so now we have no more line and cannot fish
anymore.
Rean and I fixed the bilge pump, actually he
fixed it, I handed him tools, so one more thing off the list and Rean is finally
relaxing with a book for the first time. Matt very kindly offered to break
something if he felt the need to fix some more stuff.
The boys are not doing too badly with the no
smoking - well they don't have a choice, there are no cigarettes on board.
There is the occasional complaint and swearing that they are going to get some
in Bermuda, although they are also saying that by the time we reach it, they
would have stopped for 3 whole days and should just hold out. Hold
thumbs!
Otherwise not much to report. The weather is
great and if we could just get some wind, we'd be well on our way to getting to
the Canaries on schedule.
Cheers
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