We're all a bit tired this morning...not overly
surprising though. The wind has been good all day and we swiotched between
goose-winged and reaching as the wind shifted, which seems to the pattern. We
did 175 miles in the last 24 hours and we are now 500 miles from St
Lucia.
The fishing took on a new intensity, as there is a
lot of weed about and the lines required clearing repeatedly. We caught a small
tuna, then a reasonable sized Dorado, which changed our catering plans and we
dined on Dorado fillets cooked with ginger, sesame oil, soy sauce, lime and
chives, accompanied by Lyonaise potatoes. However, the big catch of the day was
reeled in by Bob....and it was quite a fight. We brought in a beautiful Marlin,
close enough to cut the line right by the lure to set him free again. In the
final minutes of the fight the fight the 'Beastmaster' carbon rod even snapped
in two. What an amazing experience!
We had been edging south for some days to avoid the
worst of the weather....but not far enough apparently. In the early hours we
were surrounded by banks of cloud with violent lightening and torrential rain,
the wind changing direction constantly and radically. We seemed to be stuck,
unable to move out of the storms trajectory, so we put on the engine for a
couple of hours to clear the area, only to experience a patch of 25-35 knot
winds for another hour. This morning...you'd never know...back to being a
beautiful Carribbean day.
Lincy shared her 'songs of life' with us before
dinner last night and very good it was too....we all remember embarassing
ourselves at some point to the tune of 'Walk like an Eqyptian'!
This is the anniversary of the murder of John
Lennon by Mark David Chapman in New York. It's also the day in 1660 when the
first ever woman appeared on the London stage....as Desdemona in
Othello.