Nets, Nothing but nets near Gib.
SeaTrek
Bill and Judy Stellin
Tue 25 Sep 2007 10:21
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36:12.020N 005:16.690W
Nets, nothing but nets. This is tunny net
water and they are everywhere and almost ivisible to see. We were nicely
sailing with the kite, when we saw some fishermen waving frantically because we
were about to cross their floating tuna nets. It would have spelled big
trouble for us and the nets. We had a real scramble to take the spinnaker
down and then figure out how to avoid the nets. As it turned out, we had
to cross the trawlers path in front of it. Trouble was, she was moving at
speed away from us, so we had to catch up and then cross. Needless to say
there was a lot of yelling and special finger exercises when we got close enough
to see the red in each others eyes
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