13 July 2011

Ha! We got one. A beautiful big mahi mahi. Finally! This time we slowed the boat right down and carefully hauled him onboard. So we have some lovely fillets for tonight's meal - perfect timing! We've also had about 6 more bites but somehow, we're not hooking them. The wind has picked up again all day and whilst others don't have a breath of wind ahead of us, we're once again enjoying 20-24 knots of wind and so trotting along in the right direction. It was painting day for the kids, bread baking day for me (long long awaited by Whit!) and Mark submitted his entry to the great yellow banana contest in the form of a rather scrummy banana and vanilla smoothie. We're still in touch with three other yachts by SSB. Can you believe that Gerry from West by North who is on a 6000nm trip back to Vancouver with his wife after a 20 year circumnavigation was 80 a couple of days ago - I'm not sure the kids will be too happy with us if we're still dragging them round the world in 20 years time. But for now, they seem happy enough. Curr Pos: 05.44S 107.40W