Day 96 Gibraltor to Canary Islands Passage Day 2

Silk Sheets
Ben Shute & Fiona Kennelly
Sun 26 Oct 2008 23:10

Midnight Day 2 - 34:29.33N 8:02.64W 

 

Day 2 was a great day, I finally caught a fish, as you can see I am pretty happy with it, and it only took a few minutes before its guts were thrown overboard and I had put a couple of fish stakes on the BBQ.

 

The weather was good, a fresh 15 Knots of wind and blue sky’s

 

The previous nights sleep was OK as Fi and I took turns of being on watch. We changed every 2 or so hours. It is actually very hard work keeping watch when there are a lot of large boats around.

 

Special comments by Fiona:  My favorite part of the day is watching the sun rise.  All of my fears of sea monsters from the night before are diminished.  It was a very pleasant second day, especially as we had a school of Dolphins play with us for a while.  And the fish Ben caught, my god it was huge!  In true Ben style he gutted it and filleted it straight away and whacked it on the BBQ.  There was so much fish that we had a little snack of it straight away and the rest we refrigerated for our evening meal.  It was one of the nicest fish I’ve ever tasted! 

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