Northern Light II - Wednesday 29th November

Patricia continues to be flown - no squalls or rain last night and so far none today. 570 miles to go to be off Grenada which, at our current speed, will put us arriving early morning on Sunday 3rd December. The crew are already looking at the programmes in Grenada and planning the first meal and of course drinks ! Happy hour and pizza are first on the list after the welcome rum punch on arrival.

Now for Tom and my right of reply on the fishing. Despite some of the crew believing we have not read the fishing book we have read some of it and looked at the pictures! All our hooks and lures have been taken by fish as we are using 80ib metal wire to secure them with crimps. The wire has been snapped which indeed does point to big fish. Backing up our strong belief Tom spoke to another boat, Moose, who said they had also lost many lures stolen and also caught a which they reeled in and within 5 metres of the boat a shark came and swallowed the fish whole and snapped the line. We have 3 days to prove that we are indeed fisherman - perhaps we need to set our sights on smaller fish!

This morning has been very hot, washing and cleaning has been done.Cat cooked brownies yesterday and 3 of the crew have already tucked in before lunch!

Until tomorrow

Michael