We left Las Hadas at 7:30 am on February 3rd for Zihuatanejo, 200 miles down the coast. At around 32 hours, this was our longest passage since the Ha-Ha.

As soon as the anchor was up, John put the fishing lines in the water (two hand-lines and one rod). Almost immediately we had a marlin! And almost immediately he was gone. We saw him do two mighty twisty leaps into the air. The last one did the trick: the line snapped and he was gone... along with one of our brand-new lures. I was actually relieved. I wasn't sure how we were going to handle Mr. Big Pointy Nose if we had been able to reel him in.

The conditions were fine, not much wind during the day, but picking up to the 20-25 knot range during the night. We were averaging close to 7 knots of boat speed under jib alone. The girls did great too, kept themselves busy playing school, office, games and coming topside from time to time to watch the fishing lines- unfortunately there was nothing to see. They only asked to watch one movie the entire time!