Greetings There is allot going on on Diamond Girl as this report comes to you; First we may or may not be being chased by the ITCZ. This is that nasty weather area that every sailor just wants behind him. Last night we had some big ugly red blobs show up on the radar. It turned out to be heavey rain. At first we thought it was just a big squal. As I carefully interpitited the weather maps I had carefully downloaded using a combination of our HF radio, my noise canceling headphones, Nelda's iPad with a $4 app and a piece of velcro to hold this whole thing together, I discovered the ITCZ was in fact lurking higher North than usual and we may just have been lucky enough to have passed through it. Since the winds are light we fired up the engine. Now there is this big grey clould chasing us. So what else is going on? I hooked the biggest fish of my life as we are fleeing the cloud. It was Timmy O'Tooles first time out of the tackle box and I had high hopes for the purple and silver squid looking lad. I told him not to come home without a fish and off he went. About 30 minutes later the reel on the rod went completely nuts. It was singing as some great creature from the deep had found Timmy. I ran for the pole and Nelda jumped into position from her previous position, napping. I had no control over how the line was being pulled off the reel as the breast had Timmy and didn't even look back. I skillfully appied more and more pressure to the drag to stop the line from going out as I was to the point of seeing the end of the line on the reel. Then it happend, as suddenly as it had begun it was over. The line hung limp in the water and Timmy was gone. The line had done all it could but it just couldn't hold. We said a few words for Timmy, of which I can't write here, and immediately put on his brother Tommy. So what can we say about the Culanary Arts and Prepareation Center, the CAPC as we call it on Diamond Girl. First no Iron Chief will ever cook in this facility. They are all afraid! Those pampered chiefs on TV have every cooking utensil known to man. In the CAPC there are very few utensiles they would even recognize. Then come the ingreadients; No blowfish brains or lizard bone marrow to whip up into dilectable dishes. The CAPC specializes in things you probably won't find in your kitchen like Spam, canned chicken, boxed milk, non refigerated eggs and dozens of other exotic ingreediants only cruisers know about. The trick to a cruising kitchen or a galley is to stock it with things that last forever because that's how long you may be gone if the navigator doesn't do a good job. Seriously, Nelda comes up with the best meals out of the CAPC. Two days ago it was teriki rice bowls with brochilli and canned chicken. You saw the pic of the egg benadict and there is the ever popula r, soup! I can personally say I have enjoyed every meal that Nelda has prepared in the CAPC and I can't even watch them eat that stuff on TV. I actually feel sorry for the panel that has to eat itand then make up some line on why its good. Complements are easy to come by hear as the meals are first class!