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 |