Wow...we clocked up 146 nautical miles since this time yesterday, our best day since crossing from Morocco to the Canaries. We flew!! Winds picked up from 12 knots to a constant 14-16 knots and then up pre-dawn to about 20 knots.We had the mainsail, the baby and the screecher out and at one point we were clocking along at 8.4 knots. If we could keep those winds all the way to the Caribbean we'd knock a couple of days off the trip. The winds have dropped this afternoon however so we're down to a very civilized 5.5-6 knots. The excitement for today was Ray's lure that he made from a muesli wrapper seemed to do the trick and attracted something with sharp teeth that took the whole rig. His next one was made from a taco sauce sachet (silver inside, red and yellow other side) and this time something just took the hook. As we were reeling it in a swordfish about a metre long kept diving for it...hard to catch things without a hook. On the maintenance front, looks like we're using too much power and since we're sailing rather than motoring we have to cut down. So one of the fridges had to go off. We're now operating out of the big freezer and the galley fridge is switched off. Only 5 sleeps now til Santa comes!