Success with the fishing
Christine's Atlantic Circuit
Peter Lansdale
Fri 19 Aug 2016 12:00
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33:21.9N 12:49.7W
We are no moving along quite nicely in 8 to 10 knts of
wind with the main and genniker flying. Not exactly in the right direction but
the priority seems to be just to keep moving. We are well and truely in a light
wind area so are heading south which will give us more sooner.
On Tuesday night we had sailed quietly most of the night
under a glorious full moon and Wednesday we sailed along in very variable
conditions. Wednesday night had us motoring until 3 in the morning we had enough
wind to make some progress. Thursday turned out to be an eventful day. We caught
our first fish at about 9 in the morning. It was about 500 grams without its
head or innards so everyone was very pleased with themselves as we thought we
might be lucky to catch one a week. On investigation we concluded it was a
skipjack tuna so plans for the evening meal were amended.
We decided it was time to operate the watermaker, so
after much reading of the instructions we switched on and there we were
with lovely pure water coming out of the pipe. After running for about 3 hours
Gary discovered a leak on the joint with the primary filter. Then followed a
period of much swearing and cursing by yours truly the skipper as I tried to
remove the joint and redo. Won't know if it was successful until we try running
it again.
In the meantime we caught another fish, again a skipjack
and slightly larger.
  Photo of the first fish and dinner.
We lost the wind in the afternoon and motored until 3 in
the morning. It's now 1400 Thursday and we are moving nicely
again.
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