Atlantic Crossing day 10 – Tun a with identity crises

SeaWalk op reis
Sergej & Isabelle Berendsen
Wed 3 Dec 2008 12:30

Yesterday we saw quite a spectacle, a school of tuna around our boat for the entire afternoon. This morning they were still there. And if that’s not amazingly enough, they were giving away quite a show jumping out of the water all the time. I wonder if it is some kind of feeding technique coming up from below and hitting small fish. Due to the impact the tuna jumps involuntarily out of the water. I know white sharks do it that way sometimes.

 

Anyway it was very funny watching tuna trying to outdo the Flying Fish. Maybe it’s a new kind of tuna: ¨Flying Tuna¨ a cross breed between serious tuna and the adrenaline addicted flying fish. Or maybe it’s just regular tuna with an identity crises.

 

We tried to catch them by holding out our fishing net but no luck. The tuna were smarter than that.

 

The rest of the day was hardly noteworthy. As usual we had very little wind and did a couple of sail changes. We reefed down to a Genoa at night to ensure enough rest. Yannick has fallen asleep on watch twice so he needs to get more sleep and is not allowed to lay down during watch. So it is watching DVD’s for him. At least it keeps him awake.

 

School is a good way to fill part of the day and Isabelle is ahead of schedule so Alec can have a week off when we arrive in St Lucia. Lego building is also popular and today we build a city. It kept the kids occupied for another two hours. We are 10 days at sea now. The kids don’t mind and keep playing like always. They don’t even ask when we will be in St Lucia. Like it is the most natural way crossing the Atlantic and sail for 24 days on end.

 

Yep, 24 or 25 days is what is looks like now for the total crossing. But I’ve stopped looking at the arrival and I’m slowly coming to terms with a very slow crossing and being at sea for some 15 more days…