Day 279 - Galapagos - Marquesas, Passage - Day 6

Silk Sheets
Ben Shute & Fiona Kennelly
Fri 1 May 2009 20:25

Wednesday 29th April - As of midnight day-6 we were at position 4:55.69S 99:34.65W

 

It was a lovely day and finally I managed to catch a fish. It was a Dolphin fish which is definitely one of my favorite eating so fish for dinner it was.  I was quite lucky to get it on board because I have been using hand lines lately and I did not know it was hooked. By the time I had realized and got it onboard some other obviously bigger and hungry fish had had a little bite out of it. This had its advantages because Dolphin fish are the biggest bleeders and as soon as you bring them on deck blood goes everywhere. Not this time……

 

Day 279

Destination – Marquesas Passage Day 6

Traveling Direction – West

Average Speed – 5.2

Total distance – 119 Nautical Miles

Travel Time – 24h