20 44.343N 027 25.65W At Sea - all is well Day 7

Pipedream
Tue 31 Jan 2012 13:06
Running wing on wing 243 COG at 6kts. Fish on! this time Matt landed another fish of pretty good size about dinner time. He was big enough for all off us to have for dinner with leftovers. We consolidated all our fresh food yesterday and emptied the freezer. Everything is in the fridge now... should save some diesel.

Matt and I went to set the wisker pole again this morning and the togle that holds it to the mast track twisted. Same thing that we had repaired in Palma. Long and short of it is we don't have a wisker pole to use any more. We are sailing wing on wing ok but it will eventually start to chafe stuff.

I guess the big news is that we have all but decided to head to the Virgin Islands in lieu of the Barbados. This would cut about 500 miles off the trip and allow Matt and I to bring the boat all the way back to Jacksonville before he has to leave. More later...