The first morning out and we've already caught three fish! The first was a 5kg Spanish mackerel which we'll try to smoke. This was followed by a wahoo about 10kg. We decided that this was enough, our freezer can't handle much more so, just as Paul was pulling in the lines, we caught another! Again, a wahoo and this was twice the weight of the other. Enough already! And here I was worrying that we wouldn't have enough food for the passage.
We set out fairly early to no wind, zero, nada, ziltch. A bit came up by mid morning but, as is always the case, it was right on the nose. By lunchtime it had veered slightly so we could actually sail at a nice pace but just a tad low for our preferred route. Never mind, we made the most of it.
Chantey and Flour Girl also caught three fish each but poor Zorana is out there with nothing.
We ended the day having covered 130nm with some rain and nasty thunder storms in the night for a short spell. Apart from that, we're happy with the wind and wave conditions as well as with our progress to date.
1160 nm to go.
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