Cloudy Bay - 30 Nov: A whole halfway day

Today we reached our halfway (nautical) milestone!! As it is not sure when exactly, due to weather and route, we decided to make it a whole day when we reach less than 1050nm to go. Therefore, today we had a nice halfway-pizza-lunch, halfway-cheers with Poseidon, halfway-caramel-ice-cream, halfway-games, halfway-songs and a halfway-face-mask is planned for tonight. A full halfway day of celebration because we already made it halfway the Atlantic :D

It’s not like every day is a little celebration... the sailing is great, the company awesome and the food delicious and to top it of we play our new theme song everyday: “He is a Pirate” from Pirates of the Caribbean.
Caribbean here we come, yaaaaarrrrrr..

We have been sailing for 7 days straight now, the longest together so far! Only changes in sail configuration, sometimes during the middle of the night. Luckily it’s around full moon and the nights are pretty light. Sanne and me are having some midnight waking up problems, where we think we have to be on shift when it’s not ours. Sanne was even in the cockpit last night, saying sorry for being late for her shift to Kristian who just took over from her 1.5h before, lol!

We finished our big Mahi-Mahi two days ago and I was about to take over Kristian’s early morning shift and he threw out our favorite
fishing lure. Waking up with my coffee I said I wasn’t ready yet... Really 3 minutes later, we were both hanging on the line for our life! It kept on going out and were not able to reel it in. This must be a monster! After a while it got tired and Kristian was able to take in the line little by little... “What could this be?!” “How big of a fish is this?!” We both were wondering, but it will remain a secret forever :( all of a sudden the tension was gone and our favorite lure took off into the deep ocean. I feel sorry for that big fish swimming around with a lip piercing now.

Ilse