Day 5 - 27 November
Quesera
Thu 27 Nov 2008 17:11
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Well, the fish I left you a picture of yesterday
was a conundrum. It had a Yellow tinge to its scales and a large Fin. Jock
gutted it and I cooked it in olive oil, lemon and pepper and then we tried it.
It tasted just like Tuna. From this we deduced that we had indeed caught 3 of
the famed 'Yellow Finned Tuna ',and quite delicious it was too!
It was a shame we put the other 2 back otherwise
they would have been tonight's supper!
Last night/today the sailing has been better. Last
night we managed to wrap the Parasail round the furler 5 times or so, so in the
end we just centred the main and sailed under spinnaker alone. The wind
increased and we able to have a good point of sail during the day. We are still
heading in a southerly direction as our forecaster has advised us to get as far
south as possible to avoid some heavy, squally weather further the north. We
have a private weather man ( Chris Tibbs - who amongst other things wrote the
RYA Weather Handbook) and his advice has been spot on. We e-mail him our data
each morning, he then sends a forecast for where we are and where we should
go.
We have made up some time and are now ( 5pm) 485
miles from the start as the crow flies. Our average speed overall is 5 kts with
the tide, not great but Que Sera much prefers a reach rather than the wind
straight astern which is what it has been so far, and may well
remain.
A few happy pics - we are now in the Tropics and it
is certainly warmer....................
   Tasting the delicacy -pity we let the other 2
go! Skipper at the
end of the 6am (dark) to 9am watch Mike - a tropical
sailor
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