We've put St Lucia in our rear view mirror. We have covered over 500 nm under pretty fair skies. We took our gennaker sail down for a couple of hours yesterday, thinking a large cloud over taking us, was going to really dump on us. Sailing with just a genoa can give us a fair bit of speed in high winds, but that didn't happen, so we put the gennaker back up. The only draw back to the genn is; it's a little too fast for fishing. That is the trade off.
Twice each day, we check in on the SSB radio, with the other cruisers, for a quick chat. In the morning we give our current position, the winds we are experiencing, and any engine hours we have had to run, since the last check-in. Then the conversation generally shifts to the fishing report. Quite a few boats have had success, from catching a 50 lb marlin, to tuna, mahi-mahi and others. We haven't caught anything on a hook yet. One of the anglers mentioned they had success using a blue fishing lure. Unfortunately, we don't have one on board. After searching through all of the boat, I found several cans of unopened tuna with blue labels. Attaching treble hooks was a little difficult, but I think they will work. Up until now, the only lure that has worked for us, was a promise of sun bathing and free cocktail drinks on our trampoline. A couple of flying fish took us up on it, but by the time we noticed them, to bring them their drinks, they were already fish jerky. We are not too concerned with our inability to add to our provisions, we still have plenty. The only items we picked up in St Lucia were fresh produce and their local rum. Remember, drinking rum befoe 10 O'clock in the morning doesn't make you an alcoholic, it makes you a pirate.
2018-01-09 20.03.01