All good, first day: big mahi mahi and second day: spinnaker run
01 October 2012 | Between French Polynesia and Cooks Islands
Lucia
The passage is going well so far. We left Bora Bora on Sunday after our last breakfast with fresh baguette (We will miss that!). The first day we had winds of 10-15 from the back and waves around 3.5 m. We have big waves but it should come down during this week, today its already better.
Yesterday we got a mahi mahi in the afternoon, we think it maybe the biggest we caught so far. We took some time to stop the boat and there was lots of line offm so Werner took a long time to reel it in. The next challenge was to clean the fish in the platform. The waves keep crashing and lifting the platform but I had my harness on and I manage to get it clean with only one almost fall in the water. After getting a bit wet I decided to remove the skin inside the boat. I didn't master the art of cleaning fish with one hand and holding myself with the other or using two hand for cleaning and none to hold myself!
The night was fine with the only event of an accidental jibe. I forgot to turn off the autopilot when checking the email and the autopilot went off the course. Today Werner put the spinnaker and we are sailing well with less waves, around 2.5m.
We are sailing around 6 knots, direction of 296 and position of 15' 27.32S: 154' 47.61W and 500 miles to Suvarrow.