So far we sailed about 920 Nm. And another 1300 Nm to go.Today and last night we had good winds and could make up for the days of motoring speedwise.
Last night we had our first meal with canned meat, sort of rubberish meat balls, hmm..
The toast on Scott's birthday made it okay though. However this morning we caught a huge dolphin fish. With joined forces we got it on board while I was handling the rod, Arie managed to hook it. The baby bath to kill it was to small though. It took more then a couple of blows on it's head and a knife to make sure it was dead. After I gutted it, Frits cut it into nice peaces, enough for 4 days.Anyway, for a start we had a very an nice lunch :-) Of course we also had a toast on Marc's birthday.
As the day went by we changed sails a couple of times. We started with the gennaker and later set the staysail too. Then the wind veered and we had to loose the staysail. Afterwards we went back to the twin genoa's. It's keeping you busy :-)
We also took some sights today and worked out the pro forma's. Tomorrow we'll do the plottings. The sun's out and very hot all day but most of the time not clear enough to take a sight... anyway, it's fun to use the sextant again except for Eline, she could not be persuaded to give it a try too. She's sticking to the old fashioned GPS :-) and steered the boat while we were fiddling around with the almanac and reduction tables. She also made some more yoghurt, the best sofar!
Just when I was about to write this update, I was called on deck because of some rope we were dragging. Hmm,... we couldn't find a simple way to loose it so I decided to heave to and put on my swimsuit. Once in the water, it was quite easy to free the rope of the prop and within 10 minutes we were sailing again.
