A beautiful yellowfin tuna, estimated to be 40 lbs., was brought onboard this morning after a long struggle getting it up over the rail. All this happened in 8 ft. seas and 20 kts of wind. The whole procedure, hooking, landing and filleting, took about 2-3 hours. I'm not sure it was worth it but I did have an exceptionally nice lunch of chilled sashimi with wasabi and pickled ginger. I will now need to give away 20 lbs. of fish at the anchorage tomorrow.

Sand Dollar continues to make fine progress in good weather. The noon-to-noon distance for today was 128 miles for an average speed of 5.3 knots. I will "heave" to this evening to kill some time in order to make landfall at Pago Pago early tomorrow morning, thereby avoiding a nighttime entrance to the harbor.

All else is well onboard. There has been insignificant rain for the past 36 hours.