Half-hearted trade winds

Harmonie
Don and Anne Myers
Fri 23 May 2008 22:30
14:25.406S  157:18.241W
 
Well, the southeast trade winds must have heard our call yesterday because they showed up, but only in a half-hearted way.  Maybe they're embarrassed that they were so late and decided to sneak up on us without officially announcing their arrival.  Regardless, we are sailing.  Slowly.  And mostly in the right direction.  This four day trip is going to turn into a six day trip.  Such is the life of sailors.  Of course we love it when we arrive at a destination earlier than planned, but arriving later than planned is usually no fun at all.  On top of that, still no fish!  Well that's not completely true, Don did catch a small tuna the other day, but threw it back.  He is still waiting for his chance to get back at all those pacific mahi-mahi that thumbed their noses at us by triple back-flipping off our fishing hook back when we were sailing down the coast of Panama.
 
More tomorrow.
Anne