Day 11 - 8 May
Greathuf
Thu 8 May 2008 20:18
Course 262
Current speed: 5.5 knots
130+ miles with a little cheating, we put the clocks back an hour!
Almost no wind overnight - very frustrating!
Whoever designed this boat was a genius - not! The sea water inlet for the toilet is just below water level on the port (left) side. So if the wind blows from that side and the boat heels over to starboard (right) you cannot flush the toilet properly. The prevailing winds for this trip are from the port side!!!
We hooked a rather large fish yesterday that stripped off a couple of hundred yards of 80 pound line before breaking it (all in the matter of 10 - 15 seconds. On reflection it is probably a good thing that we didn't catch it!