It’s a relaxed Sunday morning for the crew of Distraction - hello to everyone who is following us. The big seas, grey skies and squalls we encountered yesterday have passed through and we are enjoying beautiful blue sky again and although the big swell is present it is not causing such bad rolling as over the last few days and we’re enjoying a comfortable sail again, with 15-20 knots of wind.
Our position is currently 870 miles to destination and based on our daily mileage we should reach St Lucia on Friday afternoon/ evening just in time for sundowners!!
Thursday saw another productive fishing afternoon..a few minutes after putting the reals out we landed a whopping Dorado measuring 1.10m from head to tail. Stuart and Simon had to pull it in by hand finally as the weight broke the real. Stuart is becoming an expert at filleting and we had one half of it for dinner marinated in chilli, ginger and lime. The other half went in the freezer for next week. We’re enjoying freshly baked bread and hearty dinners every evening (it seems almost inevitable that a change of sail takes place just as dinner is about to be served)!
We’re having so much fun in our own big ocean bubble that the outside world seems not to exist and if it wasn’t for AIS we wouldn’t know there were any other vessels out there, the last time we saw another yacht about 29 miles away was five days ago.
Ciao for now .. from us all on Distraction
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