Tuesday 23 24:20.785 17:28.802W
Shaya Moya
Don & Susan Smyth
Tue 23 Nov 2010 11:27
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What great excitement today. Reece's perseverance
finally paid off. He has caught his first fish, a 7,5kg Mahi Mahi. We quickly
leapt into action, I grabbed the rum, Dave furled the genoa Reece leapt for the
rod. After a stupendous fight lasting several hours he finally brought the fish
to the side of the boat. By this time we had turned up to wind to slow the boat.
Dave assisting, Reece brought the beauty aboard.
  Within minutes the gaffed fish was aboard, Dave
cleaned, gutted and descaled it (on a rubber mat of course) With fillets in
fridge Tony, todays chef has had to make a rapid change to todays dinner menu.
WELL DONE REECE!!
Today has been Reece's day. He went up the forstay
to rove anti-chafing kevlar around the genoa sheets. wrote up his new persoanal
logbook and now the fish-and its not even midday yet.
 Looking at our position in the fleet as updated by
ARC Rally Control, we are not looking too shabby. If the weather predictions
happen we will be down at about 20N when the SW front comes through, in lighter
winds. Much more comfortable. Where are the NE trades??
More later
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