6th March 2011 4th day at sea

The EJ's Voyage
Mike Everton-Jones
Sun 6 Mar 2011 23:27
Result on the fishing exercise! Last night we pulled a small tuna. Guess what's on the menu tonight then!
 
Beautiful day again today. Gentle Pacific swells (10seconds intervals, 1.5m height), 10 to 14 kts of wind sometime dropping to 6kts. We move along gently. Luckily we have 2 knots of current with us. Our boat speed is averaging only 5.5 kts but our speed over ground is about 7kts. 350 miles to go to the Galapagos.
 
We flew the spinnaker all daylight hours yesterday and chickened out at night (Scutch, Ollie, Jamie you remember what happened last time we had it up at night!!!) but with the change of wind direction to South East it wasn't up today. Perhaps the MPS will go up tomorrow if the wind stays in the same direction and strength.
 
All is well onboard.
 
A demain
 
Love
Mike and Catherine