Happy Wog Day! Greg here. Most of our days under passage are looking for something exciting to break up the routine but not today. Mary Margaret started off the festivities by preparing a Malaysian Chicken dish she learned in South Africa. The dish includes a spicy curry type chicken served over fresh sweet bananas (the ones we picked on Ascension Island). It was really great. After dinner I assumed the watch at about 5:30. About that time I realized the sun was setting and it was time to reel in my trolling line so I stepped down to do just that. As I was reeling in the line a sharp tug was met with a buzz as the line hummed out of the reel. FISH ON!! I yelled. And I could tell right away she was a beauty. She tail walked out of the water for a couple of seconds and Dave got a good look at her and called "Wahoo!" and "it's a big one! Four and half, maybe 5 feet long - probably close to 60 pounds!" After a second tail walk and a 30 minute fight the line went slack and the fish was gone�...�...ugh. I reeled in my lure no worse for the wear but dreaming of what could have been�..... This morning about 7:00 Dave and I were initiating a gybe to correct back to course when the blocks on the traveler broke. It took Dave a couple hours to work a temporary solution but we eventually completed the gype around 9:30 and Dave is now working a longer term fix. After we had completed the temporary repair on the traveler a now familiar "FISH ON!" call came from Mary as she saw the rod bend over in pressure. I ran up and grabbed the rod and started playing the fish. I could tell right away it was considerably smaller than the Wahoo but it still felt like a promising fish. With the fish about 100 feet from the boat my Penn reel suddenly snapped and the retrieving mechanism was destroyed. By now, the fish was tired and we were able to reel him in by hand and finally get him in to the boat. Success! A 15-20 pound Mahi Mahi!! In my opinion, the best tasting deep sea game fish. We filleted him up and stuffed about 3 meals into the fridge - one of them for tonight!! Today is also Wog Day. So Happy Wog Day to you all!! There are two types of sailors in the world, Polywogs and Shellbacks. Dave and Mary Margaret are veteran Shellbacks (This will be their 7th crossing of the equator on Leu Cat) and Mary and I are Polywogs. Shellbacks are the veteran sailors who have experienced a water crossing of the equator while Polywogs are sailors without that significant achievement. The day prior to crossing the equator is known as Wog Day as the Polywogs prepare for their right of passage to Shellbacks. We expect to cross the equator tomorrow around noon and have been preparing our "Crossing of the Line" ceremony. The Crossing of the Line ceremony is a time honored maritime tradition that dates back to the 17th century. Mary Margaret is making some peach crisp for tomorrow's desert to mark the occasion. The "Crossing of the Line" generally includes a toast (with the first taste going to King Neptune) and a representative "stepping over the line" ceremony. We have ours all set to go. So you can see, we have a lot going on. Who said passages were dull and boring?

As of noon today, the end of Day 14 of our passage to Grenada, our position was 1 17 6'S: 41 31.1'W, our course is now 304 degrees True after heading west for the last couple of days. We are now just 97 nm off the coast of Brazil as we try to avoid the bad weather that is out to sea. Our speed is 6.5 knots with the apparent wind at 13.5 knots from the SE. The seas are 2 to 3 meters from the SE. We had a good day of sailing with winds more to what we had hoped for this crossing. We have made a711=A nm so far with a passage average of 5.2 knots

Weather wise, it was another fine day and the predicting of bad weather in our way changes daily. Clint is reporting that we may have a few days of good weather in front of us. This is what our GRIB files are also showing. Keep your fingers crossed.