Day 8 The Arafura Sea, fishing and other tall stories
Seaduced
John & Jane Craven
Thu 2 Jul 2015 01:11
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We are now well on our way to Darwin and the winds have
filled in again. The first time we se the sail, we managed to sail for
about 12 hours, but then were forced to motor as the wind died.
We are now sailing at around 8.5 - 9 knots under the
reefed main and fully unfurled jib (smaller headsail) and making good progress
towards Darwin. It is now 300 miles to go and we have to sail 200 of those
miles due to the amount of fuel we have already used. However, I have just
downloaded the Grib files (simple weather files) and it looks as though the
winds should hold until Darwin.
So, onto our success or otherwise, at fishing.
Before Jane returned to the UK, not only had she prepared around 15 days worth
of lunches and dinners to keep in the freezer for a rainy day, she had also
prepared sample lunch and dinner menus with associated ingredients for a 14 days
repeating menu, and we had provisioned based on this. The two fish dishes
simply stated 'catch fish' so, yesterday afternoon we prepared the rod, lures
etc and started fishing, looking forward to cerviche appetisers and fish pie for
dinner. We ate chicken risotto!! To be fair, around 6pm we did hook
something but, by the time we had faffed and farted about with the paraphernalia
required to land a fish, it had jumped off the hook and lived to swim another
day.
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