The timing couldn't have been more perfect. I hit "call" to send off yesterday's post, which you might recall ended with doubt of the fishing. Literally within seconds, David calls from the cockpit, "Fish on!". And minutes later we have another nice 5-pound mahi mahi on deck. I make a very poor pessimist, obviously.

We've been blessed with some nice wind changes in the last 24 hours. The wind has both lightened up a bit and gone a bit south. There were times during the night when we were heading fully northeast. And while a windspeed change from 20 knots to 15 doesn't sound like much, it makes for far more comfortable sailing. The seas are a lot smoother and Aquila is taking a whole lot less spray. This is particularly good news for David, who discovered for us a new leak in the forward hatch - right over his bunk. Spray across the foredeck is not his favorite thing. But he is a trouper, and a towel under the leak brought his nearly-omnipresent smile right back.