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Today at half past eight I woke up looked out of my window and realised that we were sailing! As soon as I had realised we were sailing I got changed and ready to help sail. When I was up on deck I had to do my sea cocks and I then had to pass baby wipes to Catrin because she was being sick. Whilst we were sailing we had toast and some crisps for our breakfast, on my toast I had some raspberry jam, Catrin, Harry, Mummy and Daddy all had honey on their toast. On the sail Daddy was making water with our water maker I helped him put all the bottles that he had just filled up with clean and healthy water under the floor.

 

The sail was nine hours long so it was quite a long sail, when we were near Mallorca, Daddy asked Harry if he wanted to go fishing Harry said "yes.” After Harry had been fishing for a while he suddenly realised that he had caught a GIANT Tuna it was jumping out of the water and it was probably one metre above the water! I gave Daddy a cloth to put pressure on the line to slow it down but as soon as he started putting pressure on the line the line snapped and the tuna got away. If you see a tuna with a lot of line and a squid leer attached to it that could be Harry’s tuna. I thought the tuna was a type of tuna called Bonito.  Whilst we were driving into the marina Daddy radioed the marina but he got no reply because we were on the wrong channel (the pilot book was out of date!!), channel nine is the right channel for private marinas and 8 for public quays. Luckily there was a mariano standing on a pontoon waving at and telling us to moor up were he was.

 

When we were coming into the marina we passed an old ship wreck, a fish farm and mooring buoys. The town next to the harbour has two parts, an old town and a new town, in the old town there is a very interesting old church. the harbour is often full with sailing boats and fishing boats that fish out at sea each day. In the Mediterranean fishermen from all over the sea have over fished now there are not many fish left in the Mediterranean, scientists say that the blue finned tuna will probably be extinct in ten years because fishermen have over fished!

 

When we had moored up because it was six o’clock Mummy started to make our tea whilst Harry and I tidied up and got the boat ship shape for tea. When we had had our tea we played with Harry’s Lego minecraft set and we then watched a few episodes of a DVD and we then went to bed.

 

Written by Katie