Fish and Chips!
Digiboat's "Product Testing"
Simon Blundell
Fri 14 Sep 2012 19:31
05:04.721S
111:35.169E
15/9
0310
Very pleasant
sailing for most of the day, flat seas and a steady breeze around 10-12kn from
the S meant all sails up, including, our favourite the "Monkey" flying from the
mizzen mast, had us surging at 7-8kn. After passing Pulau Bawean the wind died
off to near nothing so been motoring now during the night.
Heading to
the W of our rhumbline as the GRIB data is forecasting 15kn SE in the next
day or so. Our rhumbline being almost due NW means the wind will be directly
behind us and without a spinnaker (destroyed during last year's HK-Vietnam Race)
we don't have a suitable sail for running square. If all goes to plan we'll get
far enough W to have an ideal broadreach angle for when the wind blows back
in...
As the heading
suggests, we broke the fishing draught today with a small blue fin tuna. Chris
chose the lure for the day and set the rod just before sunrise, but we did allow
Tony to real in the catch. Actually he'd been standing guard by the rod for most
of the morning doing atonement for yesterday's failings so Chris conceeded the
catch to him.
A taste of the
freshest possible sashimi on the aft deck during the slice and dice session. The
severed head virtually still gasping for water as the warm,
melt-in-the-mouth flesh slides down! Then 4 reasonable sized fillets were
lightly battered and gently fried and mixed with Tony's successfully made crispy
chips for a very tasty and civilised lunch.
Otherwise not much
to report as conditions close to ideallic for a relaxing day on the high
seas!
SJB